Is there a GNU (or other freely-available) man?

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From: Jonathan M Lennox
Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1992 05:29

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Is there a GNU (or some other free and fully-functional)
implementation of man(1) available anyplace?  I've gotten fed up with
MIPS Ultrix 4.2's man command which doesn't support MANPATH.

I got the BSD sources, but though they support MANPATH, they don't
support automatic man/man* --> man/cat* conversion or real-time
running through nroff if you haven't got the disk space for the cat
files, as far as I can tell.  I would like to get a man
feature-equivalent to SunOS's, as an ideal...

I couldn't find this on prep--I looked through those of the utils
suites which looked like they might be relevant--and archie turned up
nothing interesting.  Is this yet another thing on GNU's interminable
things-to-do list, or is there a solution to my problem somewhere out
there?

Jonathan Lennox
jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu

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