tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (03/14/91)
Archive-name: unix/man/tchrist-man/1991-03-13 Archive: convex.com:/pub/man.shar.Z [130.168.1.1] Original-posting-by: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Original-subject: Re: GNU man(ual) Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) From the keyboard of jwe@andy.che.utexas.edu (John W. Eaton): :There is also a very complete implementation of man in perl by Tom :Christiansen. It is available from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu :(128.146.8.60) in the directory pub/perl/scripts/tchrist. You probably want to snag the version form convex.com [130.168.64.1] via anon ftp. It's a tad more up-to-date. --tom
jwe@che.utexas.edu (John W. Eaton) (03/14/91)
Archive-name: unix/man/jwe-man/1991-03-13 Archive: andy.che.utexas.edu:/pub/man-1.0.tar.Z [128.83.162.5] Original-posting-by: jwe@che.utexas.edu (John W. Eaton) Original-subject: Re: GNU man(ual) Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <1991Mar13.102614@arp.anu.edu.au> gustav@arp.anu.edu.au (Zdzislaw Meglicki) writes: > Is there a GNU version of UNIX program "man"? I have to live at > present with very antiquated version of 4.2BSD man. It does not know > about MANPATH, hence I'm forced to throw all GNU man entries into > mann. That's most inconvenient. I'd rather have a separate man > directory altogether for GNU, X, and various other large systems. As far as I know, GNU man does not exist and I would guess it's not a high priority item since it seems that the goal is to have all GNU documentation written in TeXInfo. Other than the BSD version of man, I know of two other implementations -- mine and the competition's :-). I wrote mine because I was annoyed by the version of man distributed with Ultrix and couldn't find anything much better. It understands MANPATH and PAGER environment variables and knows a few other tricks that the standard Ultrix/BSD man doesn't. You can retrieve a copy via anonymous ftp from andy.che.utexas.edu (128.83.162.5) in the directory pub. There is also a very complete implementation of man in perl by Tom Christiansen. It is available from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (128.146.8.60) in the directory pub/perl/scripts/tchrist. -- John W. Eaton jwe@che.utexas.edu Department of Chemical Engineering The University of Texas at Austin