MAN (utility)          Free-DOS Alpha 5 release          MAN (utility)



     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:\FREEDOS\HELP.  

     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.  
          environment variable contains a complete 







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