Question: I'm looking for the windows executable for the linux man (manual reader).

I tried googling around, but got frustrated with the kind of results it came up with, owing to 'man' being such a common phrase.

I got results that read "man executed in texas..". 

So I look to the SO community now. Any clues?

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Here's my need: I have Portable Git on windows. It has a bash windows binary. But when it tries to show me help for some commands, the poor thing complains that "there is no manual reader". So if I get a man binary, I'll place it in the bin/ directory and all will be hunky-dory.

Answer: 
If you are looking to open linux style man pages in Windows, then get [Groff for Windows](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/groff.htm) to view the man pages on your command line as follows:

```
groff -Tascii -mm your_file | more

```
Install cygwin and set the path in windows command prompt as

set PATH=C:\cygwin\bin;%PATH%

and just give 'man' it should work..