
ManOpen v2.0 by Carl Lindberg  October 1999

    Please send any comments, suggestions or bug reports to
    Carl_Lindberg@blacksmith.com.

    This program is provided ``AS IS'' and without any warranty.


    ManOpen is a graphical interface for viewing Unix manual pages,
which is the standard documentation for Unix command line programs
and programmer libraries.  It can open files directly or be given
titles, in which case it will display the output from the "man"
command-line program.  Services menu items are also provided to open
selected files or titles from other applications.

    ManOpen can be useful for opening a man page without dropping
down to the command line, browsing and searching through long and
complex man pages, or simply for printing them out.

    Also included is an "openman" command line tool, which is similar
to "man" except it will display the man pages in ManOpen.app instead
of directly to the terminal.

    ManOpen should run on OPENSTEP/Mach and MacOS X Server machines.
Source code is provided for Mac OS X Server.  To install the app,
put ManOpen.app in one of the standard Application directories, such
as /Network/Applications, /Local/Applications or ~/Applications.  To
install the "openman" tool, put it in one of the directories in the
Unix $PATH, such as /usr/local/bin.  Put its "openman.1" man page
in a standard man page directory, such as /usr/local/share/man/man1.


    For those who remember, there was an ManOpen 1.1 application
by Harald Schlangmann that ran on NEXTSTEP computers.  This is a much
updated version that adds several features.  Thanks are due to
Mr. Schlangmann for the inspiration, and his internal cat2rtf tool
which is also used in this version.

    Hope you find this useful,
    
    -Carl Lindberg
    Carl_Lindberg@blacksmith.com

        
        