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- From: 873clifton@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Subject: Re: GCC man and .texi files
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.164045.6483@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 16:40:45 EST
- References: <matt.27@bss1.umd.edu> <joiner.722276551@exa>
- Organization: Western Michigan University
- Lines: 28
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- In article <joiner.722276551@exa>, joiner@exa.cs.umn.edu (Jay K. Joiner) writes:
- > In <matt.27@bss1.umd.edu> matt@bss1.umd.edu (Matthew Piermarini) writes:
- >
- >>This is probably very trivial, but I can't seem to read the man files that
- >>come with GCC2-222. I tried piping them throught Groff, but they come out
- >>screwed up. Any ideas?
- >
- > Try groff -mdoc <file> instead of groff -man <file>
- >
-
- The doc n/troff macro package is specific to BSD manual page sources,
- use groff -mandoc on any .1, .3... file and you will never have to worry
- about the contents.
-
- >>Also, how do read .texi files??? Do I need to get
- >>the whole EMTex package??
- >
- > Get the gnuinfo package. You don't need emtex.
- >
-
- Yes, to view them online gnuinfo is the trick, however if you want to create
- dvi files and view/print them, you _will_ need emtex. In fact this is about
- the only reason I went throught the bother of downloading and installing
- emtex (nice TeX package though--just not a TeX user ;-).
-
- /D
- --
- Douglas Clifton [99clifto@lab.cc.wmich.edu]
-