Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- Subject: Re: Scripting Additions: Embracing the Horror of Unix
- From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 15:56:12 -0700
at 2002 01 30, 10:46 -0600, they whom i call Michael Grant wrote:
On 1/29/02 2:56 PM, "garbanzito" <email@hidden> wrote:
so can you read the man pages (ManOpen
is a nice GUI app for this)
It's prob'ly just me, but I have to admit that I never understood the point
of using a GUI tool to read man pages. What am I missing?
partly to appeal to the anti-shell crowd, but there are
benefits even if you are comfortable with the shell --
slightly easier window management (compared to opening
multiple terminal windows), hot-linking of cross references
to other commands, use of font preferences different from
Terminal, not having to remember all the switches to man ...
ManOpen also comes with a shell command, openman, which is
very handy, since you can issue it just like man, but the
result opens in an Aqua window.
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steve harley email@hidden