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A standard for presenting software documentation in, the man format is a simple ASCII type text file that feature a few control codes alongside formatting conventions that help organise and display the documentation. This form of documentation is commonly used in the UNIX world and often shows up with software packages ported from one of those OS's.
Man pages can be viewed with any text editor but a special viewer makes them slightly easier to traverse.
OS/2 text & programmers editors with man file support
- Elvis - Man file syntax support included by default - Open source - Current
DOS text & programmers editors with man file support
- Elvis - Man file syntax support included by default - Open source - Current
Links
Native OS/2 utilities for viewing or converting man pages:
- Simple Man - Viewer
- Man 1.1 - Viewer
- Man2TXT - Man to txt converter
- GNU man - Viewer - Outdated
- Help2man - Converts text to man format, used to convert a programs output to man pages or to create dummy man pages.
The above is not an exhaustive list BTW.