New calls, manuals

["Nicholas S Castellano" <entropy@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>]

> By the way: How many different `man' tools are there out for the atari?
>
> And how many of them really work?
> [...]
> In other words: I haven't seen any version so far that really made me
> happy... Is there a clue for this?

I use groff as the formatter, the 'man' from Bill Rosenkrantz's nroff
package to drive it, and less as the viewer.  It works beautifully.

groff is a bit large, but if all you want is to format manpages, the
Rosenkrantz package does a reasonable job.  It has no trouble at all
with the MiNT man pages.

I prefer the man format personally, because I know I can view pages
from the desktop, from a shell, from a window manager, etc.  It also
has the advantage that the necessary tools for dealing with man pages
are all freely available.

Feel free to write your document in plaintext.  I'm sure someone else
will find the time to convert it to nroff format.

Cheers,
entropy

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