Re: [Mingw-msys] man browser for use in msys

[Howard C. <hy...@hi...>]

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> Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:23:52 -0500
> From: Brian Sammon <msy...@br...>
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> Are there any manpage viewers that work from the msys bash commandline?  Are there binaries available or do I have to build one myself?
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> I have groff installed already (from gnuwin32) but it doesn't come with a "man" command, and as I'm not really familiar with groff, it's looking like a bit of work to figure out which arguments I want to feed groff for reading manpages.
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I wrote a man2html program that I use for viewing manpages. It works as 
a CGI program as well as from the commandline. I find that using a web 
browser with proportional fonts and real Bold, Italics, and hyperlinking 
is much nicer than the fixed-width TTY-style presentation that groff -> 
man provides.

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