man: Format and display the on-line manual pages¹

Package available in: [trunk] [8.0] [7.0] [6.0] [2.1]

man is a man pager. It has support for compressed pages (both man pages and cat pages), and for locale ($LANG) and for message catalogs ($LC_MESSAGES). It will format files given explicitly (man ./foo.man.gz).

... part of T2, get it here

URL: http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/

Author: John Eaton, Richard Verhoeven, Michael Hamilton and Andries Brouwer
Author: Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi [at] acm [dot] org>
Maintainer: Rene Rebe <rene [at] t2-project [dot] org>

License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 1.6f

Remark: Does cross compile (as setup and patched in T2).

Download: http://primates.ximian.com/~flucifredi/man/ man-1.6f.tar.gz

T2 source: man.cache
T2 source: man.conf
T2 source: man.desc
T2 source: nroff-no-latin1.patch
T2 source: parse-config

Build time (on reference hardware): 5% (relative to binutils)²

Installed size (on reference hardware): 0.57 MB, 179 files

Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree bash binutils bzip2 coreutils diffutils findutils gawk gcc glibc grep linux-header make patch sed sysfiles tar

Installed files (on reference hardware): n.a.

¹) This page was automatically generated from the T2 package source. Corrections, such as dead links, URL changes or typos need to be performed directly on that source.

²) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).