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- From: mrd@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Mark Dobie)
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- Subject: Re: Corrupt 'tar' man page
- Message-ID: <mrd.726838918@lisa>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 11:41:58 GMT
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- In <1ip6mmINN70b@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) writes:
- >danubius@halcyon.com (Joseph R. Pannon) writes:
-
- >You can look for something that converts tex to troff format, but then you
- >would have to install tex. Your best bet is to get the tar sources and see
- >if there's a man page in them. Good bet that there is, since I have one
- >on line, and I installed tar myself.
-
- Alternatively you can try xinfo, which is a texinfo viewer that runs under
- X windows. This preserves the "hypertext" links in the texinfo file,
- although I find these can get in the way when reading the stuff.
-
- Anyway, it should be in all X11 contrib archives and is definitely in
- contrib/xinfo.tar.Z on export.lcs.mit.edu. I had no problems building
- and running it with linux.
-
- Texinfo files are the only comprehensive documentation for some GNU
- utilities. In particular, I needed them for some recent work with bison
- and flex.
-
- Mark.
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