🚀 go-pugleaf

Thanks to all the people who answered my question about a publicly
available man command.

The overwhelming opinion (from mattson@cs.UCSD.EDU (Jim Mattson),
eirik@TC.Cornell.EDU, Byron Rakitzis <byron@archone.tamu.edu>, "david
d [zoo] zuhn" <zoo@aps1.spa.umn.edu>, bet@internet.sbi.com (Bennett E.
Todd), jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells), and "Todd C. Miller"
<millert@eclipse.cs.colorado.edu>) seems to be that my best option is
a perl script written by Tom Christiansen (tchrist@convex.com) which
implements all the features I requested and more.  I checked it out,
it looks quite promising.  It's available by anon ftp on convex.com as
/pub/perl/scripts/man.shar.Z .

Rolf.Halle@runit.sintef.no recommended another program called woman (a
cute name, I must admit) which does not have all the features of
Christiansen's version, but is written in C, so is available to people
without perl.  This one seems slightly faster.  It's available on
ugle.unit.no as /pub/unix/utils/woman.shar .  (This is the address he
gave me--I don't know if this is the original location or not, or if
it's available anyplace in the US.)  The files don't appear to indicate
an author or a contact person anywhere.

nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) mentioned that on their Ultrix system
they've replaced their man with something written by John W. Eaton
(jwe@che.utexas.edu) but my ping didn't recognize this address and I
didn't bother looking into this.

Thanks to all who responded!!

Jonathan Lennox
jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu