August 19, 07 Unix, in all its flavors, is a beautiful thing. It's so darned versatile. But there's a lot to learn if you want to use it well, and viewing man pages in Terminal is...well..not a beautiful thing.

Enter Man Handler. Now you can view man pages with a nice, simple Mac user interface without a lot of hassle. Just enter the term you are curious about, hit the "Get page" button and there it is. And with the built-in services of OS X, you can make the text a sticky note, have your Mac read it aloud, email to someone, and a lot more. Rated 5 stars at MacUpdate!



Requirements: This application was developed in 10.4 (Tiger) and is a Universal binary.

Man Handler puts a familiar Mac face on unix man pages, giving you the complete text of the manual page in a window, where you can scroll, select portions, and use any of the Mac OS X services.

Even better, you can save those man page entries for later viewing without having to do another search. And the source code is included so you can take a crack at writing your own document-based AppleScript Studio application.

Many applications store their man pages in their own areas: Fink and Fink Commander store them in /sw/share/man. DarwinPorts stores them in /opt/local/share/man. And Apple's X11 stores them in /usr/X11R6/man. In a Terminal window, you can edit your startup script to add these to the MANPATH. In Man Handler it's easier - Just enter all the paths you want to search in the Preferences window, separated by a colon.

Man Handler is a free download. Why fight with Terminal and the clunky "more" interface? Download Man Handler today!