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Date:	Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:48:34 PDT7
From:	"Don{ald} O. Woodall" <dlswoodall@sbcglobal.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: What Program Reads "Man" Documents ???

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In , on 08/15/2004
at 09:15 PM, "Steven Levine" said:

>> The garbage I got in qedit tells mw that I am not using the correct
>>type of program to read a " man " file.

>Since you didn't say, I'm assuming you are trying to view cdrecord.man.
>I recommend you don't assume all .man files are formatted the same. They
>are not.

Actually it was "mkisofs.man" .

>I use less.exe to view cdrecord.man, but there are several viewers than
>can handle the ascii formatting codes that it contains.

I have a copy of "less.exe" some place I try to use
once a year or so.

>I have not used qedit in years, but IIRC, it has a mode that will handle
>the formatting codes. You might hunt through the settings.

I don't doubt it. I don't have a clue how to configure Qedit to deal
with "man" files.

>Steven

Thanks

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