BatMan

A bat script to simulate a basic version of man for Windows.

Requirments

• groff or mandoc
• less
• gzip

choco install less gzip

• ansicon (Only on older versions of Windows, Windows 10 can handle colours fine without it)

Setup

1. Select the version you want and rename it man.bat
2. Put man.bat somewhere in you PATH.
3. Set PATH_TO_FOLDER_WITH_MAN_DIRS and PATH_TO_FOLDER_WITH_GZ_MAN_DIRS to the location(s) of your Manpages.
4. Set PATH_TO_GROFF/PATH_TO_MANDOC to the full PATH to your groff.exe or mandoc.exe

NOTE: You will have to setup/install your manpages manually. (i.e. Copy them to your man_root/man_gz_root folder(s))

NOTE2: The provided manpages are pandoc conversions of markdown files found here for the commands listed by running help on Windows.

NOTE3: (Tables display better with the mandoc version of the script.)