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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: WoMan generates different result from man?
Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 20:50:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y5arw0c2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7sj0zt8nw.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2013 13:18:27 -0400
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> It's hard to see why much effort should be put into improving it, when
> you can just use M-x man to run the real /usr/bin/man program. The only
> answer that usually comes is that people on MS Windows might not have
> the man program installed.

A Windows clone of 'man' is available from here:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/man-1.4-bin.zip/download

(Groff, which is necessary to format man pages, is also available from
that site.)



  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-03 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-03 11:39 WoMan generates different result from man? Hongxu Chen
2013-06-03 12:57 ` Jonathan Groll
2013-06-03 15:20   ` Hongxu Chen
2013-06-03 17:28     ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]   ` <mailman.931.1370272993.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-03 16:56     ` Dan Espen
2013-06-03 18:15     ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-04  0:53       ` Hongxu Chen
     [not found]       ` <mailman.964.1370307204.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-04  1:57         ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-04  3:31           ` Hongxu Chen
     [not found]           ` <mailman.969.1370316681.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-04 17:08             ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-06  8:31       ` Hongxu Chen
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1074.1370507531.22516.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-06-06  9:43         ` Emanuel Berg
2013-06-07  1:11           ` Hongxu Chen
2013-06-03 17:18 ` Glenn Morris
2013-06-03 17:50   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-06-03 19:34     ` Glenn Morris

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