MAN
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NAME
MAN - Displays Free-DOS manual pages
SYNOPSIS
MAN topic
DESCRIPTION
MAN is used to display any of a number of informational help files
included with Free-DOS. By UNIX convention, these files are called
"manual pages," or "man pages" for short.
MAN will display a manual page for a topic if it locates the corresponding
file in the Free-DOS help directory.
MAN automatically checks environment variables, enabling the user
to customize the location of Free-DOS manual pages, and the pager used
to display the manual pages.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
PAGER - Name of the program to be used for viewing Free-DOS manual pages
with the MAN command, which must be in the PATH. If this variable is not
set, MAN uses a built-in pager, which works exactly like the Free-DOS MORE
command.
HELPPATH - The path name for the directory containing the Free-DOS
man pages. If this variable is not set, MAN assumes this to be
C:FREEDOSHELP.
SEE ALSO
MORE - Displays contents a file one screen at a time
PG - Scrolling full screen file viewer
PATH - Sets directories to search for executable files
SET - Sets Free-DOS environment variables
AUTHOR
Morgan "Hannibal" Toal, based on original code by James Hall.
BUGS
MAN seems to crash if the PAGER environment variable contains a complete
path name to the pager program.
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