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- Document Man
-
- Man v2.5 - © 1993 by Markus Hillenbrand
- ---------------------------------------
-
- Man is a program to view texts and docs from Shell or WB.
-
-
- 1. Requirements
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- You need: - asl.library v37
- - intuition.library v37
- - gadtools.library v37
- - graphics.library v37
- - dos.library v37
- - icon.library v37 (ManCom only)
- - commodities.library v37 (ManCom only)
-
- Supported: - locale.library v38
- - reqtools.library v38 (busy-pointer)
-
- Recommended: - a harddisk to use help-texts efficiently
- - "MultiView" from OS3.0 to read .guide files
- - "Amigaguide" from OS2.0, if you don´t have 3.0
-
-
- 2. Configuration
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- To configure the program, type "man -c" or "man -config" in your shell.
- A window opens where you can enter several specifications.
-
- The gadget "Path for texts": here you enter the path which the program
- will search to get the texts. You can also enter an assign, so that the
- program will search several directories. The best of all is to create a
- directory on a harddisk-partition where you locate all .DOC and .guide
- files.
-
- The gadget "program": here you enter the program to use for viewing and
- reading texts (maybe your favourite text-reader).
-
- The four gadgets on the right side represent the suffixes you can select.
- In last of them you can enter your own suffix (if you insert ".guide"
- you can prevent the program from calling "Multiview" or "AmigaGuide".
-
-
- 3. Shell-usage
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- To read a text from shell, you have to add its name in the command line.
- Here you must not enter the suffix! "Man lha" for example searches for
- lha.doc, lha.dok, lha.man, and ... in the preferred directory/assign.
- This text will then be shown with your preferred text-reader.
- If you enter "man -l" you´ll get a list of all texts located in your
- directory/assign.
- If you call man without any parameter, an asl.requester will open and
- ask you for the text.
-
-
- 4. Localisation under WB2.1+
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Since Workbench 2.1 the program can be localized, i.e. it can be translated
- into several languages. Therefor I added the C source of the catalog. In the
- original only the german and english version are supported.
- The C source kann easily be changed, and with a suitable program (i.e.
- MakeCat - © Paladin-Software etc.) you can rebuild the catalog.
- If you have created a new catalog it would be nice if you send me the new
- C source via e-mail. Perhaps I can add the new language in a newer version
- of man.
-
-
- 5. ManCom - the Man commodity
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- ManCom v1.1 is a commodity, that waits for a hotkey (CTRL HELP) and opens a
- requester, which asks for the text to show.
- Its quite the same as calling man without any parameter from the shell, with
- one exception: it resides in memory until it is unloaded.
- With "Exchange" you can open the configuration window (the same as "man -c").
-
- The program reads the tooltypes of the program icon. These can be:
-
- HOTKEY=... and CX_PRIORITY=...
-
- Here you can enter values suitable for commodities.
-
-
- 6. Copyright
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- `Man' is Copyright (C) 1993 Markus Hillenbrand and it's freely distributable
- as long as all of its files are included in their original form without
- additions, deletions, or modifications of any kind, and only a nominal fee
- is charged for its distribution. This software is provided *AS IS* without
- warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. By using `Man', you agree
- to accept the entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program.
-
- Of course, it was tested rather extensively before it was released...
-
-
- 7. Address of the author
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
- Here´s my address (bug-report, suggestions or something like that):
-
- Markus Hillenbrand
- Weserstrasse 9
- 36124 Eichenzell-Loeschenrod
-
- GERMANY
-
-
- or e-mail: m_hillen@informatik.uni-kl.de
-