iMan

GUI application for UNIX man pages (textual documentation files)
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  • License:
  • BSD
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • David Reed
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  • Operating Systems:
  • Mac OS X 10.5 or later
  • File Size:
  • 608 KB

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iMan Description

GUI application for UNIX man pages (textual documentation files) iMan is a graphical viewing application for UNIX man pages (textual documentation files). iMan provides a Mac OS X native Aqua interface as an alternative to use of the man program via the Terminal.iMan is written using Apple's Cocoa frameworks in the Objective-C language. Here are some key features of "iMan": · Pleasant Aqua user interface with multiple viewing windows. · View man pages as well as any man-format file on disk (great for previewing). · Supports apropos and whatis database searches, as well as in-page search with regular expressions. · Browser-style history (forward and back within any window). · User-customizable font styles. · Handles links to man pages in several forms (man:groff(1), man://groff/1, and man://1/groff are all supported). If you have iMan installed, click here to go to the man(1) man page. · Reusable framework core can be embedded in other applications to provide man page handling functionality. What's New in This Release: · This release features updates and polish to the user interface, numerous bugfixes, and substantial improvements to the underlying engine. Please note that this is a beta release: it has been tested and found to work, but is known to contain bugs which will be ironed out before the final release.


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