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TkMan 2.2

Summary

Description: Graphical man and info browser
Source: http://tkman.sourceforge.net/

Support

This package is available for all platforms. This package is unsupported and provided on an as-is basis.

Description

TkMan is a graphical, hypertext manual page and Texinfo browser for UNIX. TkMan boasts hypertext links, (optional) outline view of man pages, high quality display and superior navigational interface to Texinfo documents, a novel information visualization mechanism called Notemarks, full text search among man pages and Texinfo, incremental and regular expression search within pages, regular expression search within Texinfo that shows all matches (not just the next), robustly attached yellow highlight annotations, a shortcut/hot list, lists of all pages in user configurable volumes, a comprehensive Preferences panel, man page versioning support, and unmatched online text formatting and display quality, among many other features.

Changes

2.2 2003-04-01

Tenth birthday. Version 2.2 for Tcl/Tk 8.4 released.

2.1 2002-01-05

Updates for the current versions of Tcl and Tk, faster database build time, support for reading texinfo source, simple support for reading RFCs, fuzzy search for man page names, and support for Solaris 8.

Files

   Programs: retkman tkman

Accuracy

This information reflects the version of this package that is installed in Stanford's site-wide pubsw software tree. Newer versions of the package may be available from the package source. The contents of this page, including the source URL if applicable, are generally only reviewed when the package is upgraded and therefore may not accurately reflect the current version of the package.