The PPT man Command
This is the home page for the Perl Power Tools
implementation of the standard man command.
Current Perl implementations are:
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Tom has an ancient perl3ish version of man,
makewhatis, and others that he wrote
back in 1990. It relies on
nroff, but it would be nice to have it that works with raw pod, too.
The BSD and RedHat man programs are both derived from this version,
but have nice updates, too, like the config file. A complete redesign
and rewrite would be nice.
Henry Spencer created an awk
clone of nroff -man that worked just for manpages.
Perhaps that would be enough to deal with nroff-defficient systems.
Baseline documentation: