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Date:	Wed, 19 Mar 2003 21:57:49 PST8
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: scroll-search command line utility ?

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In <3E793709.71@peterskye.com>, on 03/19/03
at 07:35 PM, Peter Skye said:

>Umm, Steven, good buddy, good pal, the man15g.zip file contains *41*
>files and the readme says you have to download and install several other
>files as well to make it work.

Did you read the readme? You have a knack for making things complicated.

>Should I just unarchive the man.exe executable and see what happens, or
>must I allocate the usual 1am-5am time slot for installing everything
>this little octopus needs?

Well, what I did was:

- read the readme
- realize that there were both English and Japanese versions included
- decide to ignore the Japanese version until I learned the language
- realize that source code and build tools were included
- decide to ignore these until I need to build from source
- install emx-man.zip as instructed
- verify that my gzip install was OK
- verify that my less install was OK
- use it

I think I spent maybe a half hour or so on this, but part of that was
understanding how to bypass gzip when I wanted to.

>I'm about ready to go back to e.exe for reviewing text files.

Whatever. :-)

Steven

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