Man page
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.
Tools
OS/2 text & programmers editors with man file support
- Elvis - Man file syntax support included by default - Open source - Current
OS/2 text formatter
- awf - nroff-like for old ms-sh
- Cawf] - nroff-like text formatter
- lout - multi-lingual document formatting system
- GNU Groff - man page formatter
OS/2 utilities for viewing man pages
- DrMan 1.3 - PM viewer that allos you to view UNIX style man and info files.
- Simple Man - Viewer
- GNU man - Viewer - Outdated
- Man 1.1 - Viewer
- xman - X11 based viewer included in XFree86/2
OS/2 utilities for converting man pages
- Man2TXT - Man to txt converter
- Help2man - Converts text to man format, used to convert a programs output to man pages or to create dummy man pages.
DOS text & programmers editors with man file support
- Elvis - Man file syntax support included by default - Open source - Current
The above is not an exhaustive list BTW.
Links
- History of UNIX man pages
- Unix Programmer's Manual (1971-11-03) 1st Edition