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Re: GCC man and .texi files

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From: 873clifton
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
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Douglas Clifton [99clifto@lab.cc.wmich.edu]  
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Subject: Re: GCC man and .texi files
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