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- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 18:05:38 -0400
- From: "Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>
- To: itschere@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
- In-Reply-To: Torsten Scherer's message of Tue, 26 Jul 94 19:06:08 +0100 <9407261754.AB09168@pirol.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de>
- Subject: New calls, manuals
-
- > By the way: How many different `man' tools are there out for the atari?
- >
- > And how many of them really work?
- > [...]
- > In other words: I haven't seen any version so far that really made me
- > happy... Is there a clue for this?
-
- I use groff as the formatter, the 'man' from Bill Rosenkrantz's nroff
- package to drive it, and less as the viewer. It works beautifully.
-
- groff is a bit large, but if all you want is to format manpages, the
- Rosenkrantz package does a reasonable job. It has no trouble at all
- with the MiNT man pages.
-
- I prefer the man format personally, because I know I can view pages
- from the desktop, from a shell, from a window manager, etc. It also
- has the advantage that the necessary tools for dealing with man pages
- are all freely available.
-
- Feel free to write your document in plaintext. I'm sure someone else
- will find the time to convert it to nroff format.
-
- Cheers,
- entropy
-
- --
- entropy -- it's not just a good idea, it's the second law.
- Personal mail: entropy@gnu.ai.mit.edu
- MiNT library mail: entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu
- "what do you have against octal?" -jrb
-
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