Windows Man Page Viewer?

[Skute]

Hi,

does anyone know where i could get a windows man page viewer from?

Ive been sent a file from a friend with a .4p file extension and it is apparently a *nix man page.

Any help, thanks.

 

[AP81]

It is an Ascii text file. You should be able to open it with windows wordpad. Select 'Open' from the menu, and change the file type to 'all files *.*' at the bottom.

 

[Skute]

yeah i can open it ok, but its got a load of markup language in there that i wanted to get rid of, thanks

 

[AP81]

Are you using Notepad or Wordpad? Wordpad should't have all the garbage characters.

UltraEdit is the text-file viewer I use for windows. I tested a man page a few minutes ago and it worked fine.

 

[Skute]

its not garbage characters, its like markup language, like alot of

.I

.B

etc in there

 

[flugh]

That's postscript I belive. Not sure how to 'really' get it printed nicely (aside from sending it to the printer). Try this:

man <command> | col -b > yourmanpage.txt

(that's from the 'man' man page)

You can then send that text file to your friend. Or google for the command and send a link from one of the bagillion or so manpage-to-html pages out there (like

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/man.1.html

)

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JBR