As a Mac OS X geek, I find myself at the command line quite a bit to do various things. One of the things I’ve always thought was awkward about the command line was reading man pages for a command. I always wanted to be able to quickly scroll back and forth through a long man page and/or be able to print it out for later reference. That is not easy if you read a man page from the command line.

Recently, a friend pointed me to a nifty application called ManOpen, which allows you to open and view man pages from the GUI of Mac OS X. You get the typical nice things with the GUI, including a scroll bar and the ability to print it using the standard print dialog box. I’ve found it to be very convenient.

Check it out at http://www.clindberg.org

–Pete