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ManOpen - 2.5.1

graphical interface for viewing Unix manual pages

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All Time:	(4.8)
This Version:	(5.0)
Current Version:	2.5.1
Release Date:	2005-12-05
License:	Freeware
Downloads (this version):	6,301
Downloads (all versions):	36,777

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Product Description:

ManOpen is a MacOS X GUI application for viewing Unix manual pages, which is 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 in this version:

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, (ab)used by Tcl for its man pages.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

Feedback Summary:

This Version:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(5.0)	Support:	(5.0)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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ManOpen universal binary (unofficial) - Version: 2.5.1, 8/4/2009 12:46AM PST

xcgr

There is an unofficial universal binary of ManOpen available here: http://cverge.net/tools/#manopen

Easy to compile for Intel - Version: 2.5.1, 10/13/2006 12:44PM PST

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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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Easy to compile for Intel

Indispensable - Version: 2.5.1, 2/12/2006 01:35AM PST

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marco.olivares

...really an indispensable tool for a BSD fanatic like me.
Great job! Thank you!