Running man by double clicking a man page, from Explorer?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2003, Lee D. Rothstein wrote:

> Since 'man' pages for commands all have the same extension
> ('.1'), it seems to me that it should be possible to write a
> batch file that calls 'bash' that 'invokes' man for the page?
>
> This would allow you to double click a 'man 1' page, and voila, a
> 'cmd.exe'/'bash.exe' window would appear with the man page
> displayed.
>
> As it turns out, there are several things like this that I want
> to do. So far, haven't been able to figure out how to do it.
>
> Anybody solved this problem or "proved" it is unsolvable?
>
> Lee D. Rothstein -- lee@veritech.com

The trick is not to use "man", but to do the job of "man".  The last few
lines of the output of "man -d man", for example, will hold a clue.
Beware the standard cygpath/quoting issues.
	Igor
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