Re: [Mingw-users] How to view 'man pages' in MinGW

[James S. <jam...@op...>]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 14:07 +1100, James Steward wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 14:05 +1100, James Steward wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 19:43 -0500, Azhar Bokhari wrote:
> > > Dear Sir/Madam  
> > >  
> > > I have installed the current MinGW. While browsing the directory man,
> > > I understand I can view 'man pages' in sub-directories /MinGW/man/man1
> > > and /MinGW/man/man2. However, when in MSYS window, I type 'man'
> > > command i.e.  
> 
> > However, nroff (or groff) is not in my distro of msys/mingw.  So unless
> > you have nroff you probably won't have much luck.  I guess you could try
> > compiling it from source!
> 
> There are windows groff binaries available from
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/groff.htm but I haven't tried
> them yet.

Yup, that works.  However the rxvt doesn't like some of the escape
sequences :-(