Man111a

Short:        UNIX man command. Recognizes GUIDE files
Author:       kai@iske.adsp.sub.org
Uploader:     kai iske adsp sub org
Type:         os20/cli
Architecture: m68k-amigaos

This is a simple MAN command, known from UNIX systems. The advantage is, that 
it recognizes .guide files to be AmigaGuide© documents. MAN then uses a 
different viewer in order to display the AmigaGuide© document. Furthermore MAN
recognizes TeX-DVI files as well, using a different viewer to display them.
You may configure MAN using environment variables. Configuration can be done
for :

  - Directories, where to look for man pages (.doc|.man|.guide|.dvi)
  - ASCII Textviewer to use
  - AmigaGuide© Textviewer to use
  - DVI viewer to use
  - Additional extensions for those filetypes
  - Some more flags; take a look


PUBLIC DOMAIN, includes source...


Fixed since Version 1.11 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)

  - Man produced an enforcer hit when no manpage was supplied
    (Reported by : Michael van Elst)

Fixed since Version 1.10 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)

  - Man will no longer issue an error if you a) didn`t specify a
    manpage and b) set the MANGETFILE attribute for the File
    Requester. This way the Requester will popup if you
    call MAN without any arguments
    (Requested by : Bill Hogsett)
  - The FileRequester will pop up on the default PubScreen now
    (Requested by : Bill Hogsett)
  - The default path for the FileRequester will be set to the
    first Dir of the MANPATHS now
    (Requested by : Bill Hogsett)
  - Support for DVI files added
  - MAN will set the Viewer`s current dir of that where the
    man page resides in

Fixed since Version 1.9 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)

  - Mike Barsoom added MANBASENAME attribute for stripping
    off any path names from the manpage name. Useful when
    launching MAN from within (ie) ToolsDaemon
    (Submitted by : Mike Barsoom)

Fixed since Version 1.8 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)

  - Recompiled using SAS/C 6.51
  - Added MANGETFILE parameter
    (Requested by : Bill Hogsett)

Fixed since Version 1.7 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)

  - Man now correctly handles multi-assigns, since ExAll
    doesn`t....;)
    (Reported by : Jan Hoeydahl)

Fixed since Version 1.6 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)

  - All config variables have been moved to a single one,
    which will be parsed just like a CommandLine
    (Suggested by : Michael 'Mick' Hohmann)

Fixed since Version 1.5 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)

  - Added MANRMEXT, MANAGEXT and MANNOVIEW options,
    which may be used for extensibility of MAN
    (Somehow suggested by : Michael 'Mick' Hohmann)

Fixed since Version 1.4 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)

  - Referenced free memory area

Fixed since Version 1.3 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)

  - DOS-Library wasn`t closed

Fixed since Version 1.2 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)

  - Added CTRL-C checking
  - Recompiled using SAS 6.50
  - Reduced stack usage
  - Reduced executable size

Fixed since Version 1.1 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)

  - One couldn`t type "Man man" to get the documentation of man
    loaded, just because of the fact that I took "MAN" as a keyword
    for the template...

Fixed since Version 1.0 (Yep, even a small program may have bugs ;)

  - Accidentially called Exit() instead of exit(), which
    prevented the program to pass the cleanup code of SAS.
    So a lock to the directory was kept and the shell could
    never been left.............