ManOpen

ManOpen showing the openman man page.

Developer(s)| Carl Lindberg
Stable release|

2.6 / March 2012

Operating system| Mac OS X, OPENSTEP/Mach-O
Type| Graphical man page viewer
License| BSD-2-Clause
Website| www.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. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. http://tidbits.com/article/7839. Retrieved 2012-01-07.
3. ↑ Lindberg, Carl. "ManOpen 2.5". Rixstep. http://rixstep.com/4/2/mo,00.shtml. 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.

### External links

* ManOpen homepage

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