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

[Rob Griffiths]

On Jan 4, 2006, at 2:22 AM, Aaron wrote:

> 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.

I've used ManOpen for quite a while; it works reasonably well (http:// 
www.clindberg.org/projects/ManOpen.html).

> 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?

We ran a recent hint on this -- http://www.macosxhints.com/ 
article.php?story=20051225101106519. Basically, you can do this:

man -t some_command | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app

You'll get a nicely-formatted man page in Preview, but it's a bit  
slow to open. I think the finished product, though, is quite  
readable. There are also many alternatives listed in the comments to  
the above-hint.

-rob.