ManOpen

ManOpen
Developer(s)Carl Lindberg
Stable release
2.6 / March 2012
Operating systemMac OS X, OPENSTEP/Mach-O
TypeGraphical man page viewer
LicenseBSD-2-Clause
Websitewww.clindberg.org/projects/ManOpen.html

ManOpen is a utility for NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X created by Carl Lindberg that can display Unix man pages in a graphical environment instead of a terminal emulator such as Terminal.[1]

Man pages are included in the program; it has a Recents menu, where users can view recently opened man pages, a Section selector to jump to a section of the manual, and a Find function that can search for text in the manual.[1] Included with the application is a command line utility called openman that will open invoked man pages in ManOpen.[2] Internally ManOpen does not directly view the man page but runs it though Harald Schlangmann's cat2html or cat2rtf into HTML or RTF for viewing.[3]

In their Mac OS X Version 10.1 Black Book, author Mark R. Bell and system administrator Debrah D. Suggs commented positively on ManOpen usefulness, and described it as "a great utility".[4]

References

  1. ^ a b McElhearn, Kirk (2005). The MAC OS X command line: Unix under the hood. John Wiley & Sons. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-7821-4354-6.
  2. ^ Engst, Adam C. (2004-10-04). "ManOpen Opens Man Pages". TidBITS. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
  3. ^ Lindberg, Carl. "ManOpen 2.5". Rixstep. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
  4. ^ Bell, Mark R.; Suggs, Debrah D. (2002). Mac OS X Version 10.1 Black Book. Coriolis. p. 521. ISBN 978-1-57610-606-8.