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Frank Esposito

10/17/2008 9:04 PM

post15189

Is there a man command to view man pages from qnx packages?

Thomas Fletcher

10/18/2008 7:54 PM

post15206

Re: Is there a man comman?

Frank Esposito wrote:
> Is there a man command to view man pages from qnx packages? 
>   
The 'use' command provides abbreviated usage information.  The full docs 
are ...
well in the documentation, searchable from the helpviewer or the IDE help.

Thomas

Frank Esposito

10/21/2008 2:49 PM

post15367

Re: Is there a man comman?

Thanks for the info ... how about when 3rd party packages are installed that have man pages ?

Sean Boudreau(deleted)

10/22/2008 9:12 AM

post15394

Re: Is there a man comman?

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 02:49:43PM -0400, Frank Esposito wrote:
> Thanks for the info ... how about when 3rd party packages are installed that have man pages ? 

You can look at porting gnu man or nroff:
# nroff -man <foo>.1 | less -r

-seanb

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