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- Short: UNIX man command. Recognizes GUIDE files
- Type: os20/cli
- Uploader: kai@iske.adsp.sub.org
- Author: kai@iske.adsp.sub.org
-
- This is a simple MAN command, known from UNIX systems. The advantage is, that
- it recognizes .guide files to be AmigaGuide© documents. MAN then uses a
- different viewer in order to display the AmigaGuide© document. You may
- configure MAN using environment variables. Configuration can be done for :
-
- - Directories, where to look for man pages (.doc|.man|.guide)
- - ASCII Textviewer to use
- - AmigaGuide© Textviewer to use
-
- PUBLIC DOMAIN, includes source...
-
- Fixed since Version 1.5 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)
-
- - Added MANRMEXT, MANAGEXT and MANNOVIEW options,
- which may be used for extensibility of MAN
- (Somehow suggested by : Michael 'Mick' Hohmann)
-
- Fixed since Version 1.4 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)
-
- - Referenced free memory area
-
- Fixed since Version 1.3 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)
-
- - DOS-Library wasn`t closed
-
- Fixed since Version 1.2 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)
-
- - Added CTRL-C checking
- - Recompiled using SAS 6.50
- - Reduced stack usage
- - Reduced executable size
-
- Fixed since Version 1.1 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)
-
- - One couldn`t type "Man man" to get the documentation of man
- loaded, just because of the fact that I took "MAN" as a keyword
- for the template...
-
- Fixed since Version 1.0 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)
-
- - Accidentially called Exit() instead of exit(), which
- prevented the program to pass the cleanup code of SAS.
- So a lock to the directory was kept and the shell could
- never been left.............
-