[X-Unix] Is there a GUI utility for viewing UNIX man pages?

Jakob Peterhänsel jakob at hjemme.dk
Wed Jan 4 06:03:25 PST 2006


Hi,

If you have Sogudi installed, you can also do it in Safari:

http://www.kitzkikz.com/Sogudi

Best,

     Jakob Peterhänsel

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   and make it so hard for our selfs"
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Den 04/01/2006 kl. 11:22 skrev Aaron:

> I've been using OS X (10.3.9) for a couple of months, after more  
> than a decade of using Classic Mac OS and over a decade before that  
> using BSD UNIX.
>
> I'm wondering if there's some kind of GUI app that would let me  
> view man pages without having to first retrieve them as text from  
> the terminal interface and then open them with a word processor.
>
> If not, is there a better way than doing 'man <name> | cat' and  
> then copying the output from the teminal window to a word processor?
>
> A related question: Is there a way to produce output from a troff- 
> formatted document that can be read as formatted text by TextEdit  
> of similar programs? (Does anybody even use troff anymore?)
>
>  - Aaron
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