Re: [Mingw-msys] How do I read man pages under Windows

[John Clizbe <john.clizbe@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brian Antao wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> What utilities do I need to download to be able to process and read man pages
> under Windows... ie is there an equivalent of the man command available in 
> the MinGW/msys distribution ?

A number of us just use the man command, though it requires building.

Source is in man-1.6-mingw-beta-1-src.tar.gz on the MinGW site.

First you'll need to install groff and it's dependencies. groff is available in
the mingwPORT section, groff-1.19.2-mingwPORT-1.tar.bz2.

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