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DESCRIPTION
ManOpen is a MacOS X GUI application for viewing Unix manual pages, which are the standard documentation for Unix command line programs, programmer libraries, and other system information. It can open files directly or be given titles, in which case it will display the output from the `man' command-line program. An apropos interface is also provided, which is basically a quick-and-dirty search of the man page databases. Services are provided to other applications to open selected files/titles or do apropos searches using the selected text.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.5.1:
- No longer declares 1, 2, 3, 4, ... , 9 file extensions as man pages. This caused problems on some systems.
- Page loading got slower under MacOS X 10.4.2; this should be fixed.
- Handled some cases where UTF8 sequences appeared in the man page and were not displayed properly.
- Add support for the 'n' man page section
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.1 or later.
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| ManOpen User Reviews (14 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Aug 4 2009 |
REVERB There is an unofficial universal binary of ManOpen available here: http://cverge.net/tools/#manopen
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 | May 17 2008 |
JOHN P HUGHES If you are a Mac OS X 10.4.11 user, Man Handler offers a better way to add Man search paths - ManOpen does not show hidden directories!
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| Oct 13 2006 |
CHRISCHRAM You don't have to wait for an Intel version of this app. it's quite easy to compile. Just download the source code from the dev's website, in Terminal navigate to the source code's folder, type make. That Easy. (You must have Xcode installed for this magic to work.)
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| Jun 9 2006 |
JOBBY Main app works fine on Intel Macs, but the openman command doesn't :( Any chance of a Universal build, please?
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| Aug 19 2006 |
KLKTRK Yes, please. That would be nice. Thanks.
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| Oct 5 2006 |
SPYRO Note that the source code is available and it does compile well on an intel mac, though it is not said if one can redistribute a compiled version (so I don't, as I am not the author).
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| Oct 13 2006 |
CHRISCHRAM Adding to Spyro's comment: (You must have Xcode Tools installed for this procedure to work.) Download the source code from the dev's website. Double-click the archive to unzip and untar it. In Terminal type 'cd' (without the quites) and a space, then drag the 'ManOpen-2.5.1' folder to the terminal window, then . Type 'make' . In a few seconds you will find ManOpen.app and openman in the folder. Drag ManOpen.app to somewhere you keep your Applications. Drag openman to somewhere in your PATH. You're done.
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 | Dec 5 2005 |
ILOVEITALY Awesome job! Simple, effective, now supporting the 'n' man pages!
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| Dec 5 2005 |
REVERB Works as advertised. My favorite of the current crop of graphical manpage readers.
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| Aug 29 2005 |
CACHE22 Great program, but one annoyance: it grabs ownership of any files with names ending in .1, .2 etc, which royally messes up a lot of Classic applications that have version numbers in their names. Even after removing ManOpen from my computer, several of those apps still aren't recognised as applications at all.
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| May 6 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Thank you for the update! I love this. So nice to be able to read the man page in one window while working on the command line in another. Room for improvement? 1) The little dialog box for opening man pages seems to always come up at the same spot, no matter where you move it, and is always hidden behind the man pages I open from the command line. 2) I've never had any success configuring the man path for the ManOpen application (using the preference dialog). I always have to resort to setting my manpath in the shell for this to work. Why allow the user to add man paths in the application, if they don't help the application find anything after all?
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| May 3 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Rich, read the README file! You're a unix guy and you're complaining about an installer? What ever happened to cp or mv? Or, if you don't mind the non-sophisticated non-unix way, try the Finder drag-and-drop? I installed mine in /Applications/ManOpen/ and it could find its own man page.
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| May 3 2005 |
An installer script would be nice... Confusing names: is it ManOpen or openman? It can't even open it's own man page... Not looking good. I'm going to stick with xman, which comes with every X11 implementation. Much simpler, and standard across every platform (which is why we're using Unix in the first place, right?). Just put this in your X11 preferences: Command: export MANPATH=`/usr/bin/manpath` GROFF_TYPESETTER=latin1;/usr/X11R6/bin/xman Dead easy, no downloads, and completely transparent. In other words, the Unix way of doing things.
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