GUI for Man pages on Mac OS X

By | October 5, 2004 | Open Source

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For those in the SitePoint community on the Mac (as I am in most cases) — a nice tool written by Carl Lindberg called ManOpen simplifies accessing and searching Man files on your system.

It captures a list of all Man pages on the system, allows for searches by keyword and also a viewer within which to read and scroll. While the Terminal will do in most cases for viewing Man pages — there are cases where some simple searching within man pages across the board could save time.

The benefit of the index of Man entries is the optional time spent browsing and learning about new apps and procedures not yet explored in the course of work and research days…

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Blane Warrene

Blane is a writer and researcher focusing on Apple and Open Source technologies. Prior to this, he helped found a commercial software and consulting venture, and worked in the financial services sector as a director of technology and in varying technical roles. Blane maintains Open Sourcery: SitePoint's Open Source Blog.

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DrewMerkle December 19, 2005 at 1:50 pm

Very useful. Seems to work on Mac OS X Server 10.4.3, at least at first glance. Thank you.

saltwater October 5, 2004 at 6:39 pm

Thanks for the blog on ManOpen Blane. As much as I like to grok the command line, its still not totally my cup of tea yet. Every help is vital.
Couldn’t agree more with pixelguru

Sidenote: Anybody using omniweb5, sitepoint doesn’t seem to render well. I did inform Omnigroup who told me they have fix it apparently (not). But for a browser like omniweb just a minor point, per site preference allow us to identify ourselves as safari to sitepoint, and sorted.
Sorry for posting the little note here, I guess a lot of Mac user will be reading this blog.

pixelguru October 5, 2004 at 12:23 pm

Thanks! I’m learning more and more command line stuff every day and this little app will certainly help.

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