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- `man', `whatis', `apropos' and `catman' are simple-minded versions of the
- UN*X manual paging, manual search and manual maintenance programs.
- These versions were written by HPP Biersma (schuller@dutiag.tudelft.nl)
- and come under the GNU public license; see the file "copying" for details.
-
- These programs were written to be used under MiNT. They have not been
- extensively tested under TOS. As the mintlib is used, it should work
- just fine under TOS; however, no guarantees are given.
-
- To use these programs, you need an `nroff' program, the `tmac.an' macro
- package for nroff, a pager like `less' or `more' and the `cat' program.
- Installation is easy:
- - Make sure `nroff' and `cat' are in the search path. For instance,
- if these programs reside in /bin, make sure the environment variable
- PATH includes /bin. If you can run these programs from your shell,
- all should be fine.
- - Make sure `nroff' can find the tmac.an macro package. You may have
- to set an environement variable to do this. The `nroff' I use
- needs to have the searchpath set in the environment varaible TMACDIR.
- - Set the environment variable PAGER to the pager you want to use.
- Do not forget to include parameters. The default is `less -r -e'.
- Of course, your pager should be in the search path, or the name of
- the pager must be set to an absolute path.
- - Set the environment variable MANPATH to the directories containing
- manual pages. Directories must be separeted by a colon or semicolon.
- The default is /usr/man.
- - Make sure the man?, cat? directories are properly set up.
- An example: all MiNT manual pages are from section 2. So, create a directory
- called `man2' within the man directory and copy all MiNT man pages there.
- If you want to keep formatted versions, create the directory `cat2' too.
-
- The (unformatted) manual files "man.1", "whatis.1", "apropos.1" and "catman.8"
- contain manuals for `man', `whatis', `apropos' and `catman'. Short info: `man'
- displays reference manual pages, `apropos' and `whatis' look up a command in
- the whatis database and `catman' formats manual pages and builds the whatis
- database.
-
-
- Notes:
- - man, whatis, apropos and catman were written for gcc version 2.3.1,
- patchlevel 1, and the mintlib patchlevel 25. Thanks to Eric Smith
- and Jhawar Bammi for gcc, mintlib and MiNT.
- - man, whatis, apropos and catman should work under MiNT and TOS.
- - source code is in the files `man.c', `whatis.c', `apropos.c' and `catman.c'.
- - man, whatis, apropos and catman come under the GNU public license.
- See the file "copying" for details.
- - bug reports, questions, comments: to schuller@dutiag.tudelft.nl
- - if anyone has got a good version of `more' running under MiNT
- (one that doesn't drop lines), please mail me!
-