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Article #3054Re: GCC man and .texi files
From: 873clifton
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:40
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:40
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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]
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!gumby!wmichgw!873clifton 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