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- A manual page reader, TkMan offers two major advantages over xman:
- hypertext links to other man pages (click on a word in the text which
- corresponds to a man page, and you jump there), and better navigation
- within long man pages with searches (both incremental and regular
- expression) and jumps to section headers. TkMan also offers some
- convenience features, like a user-configurable list of commonly used man
- pages, a one-click printout, and integration of `whatis' and `apropos'.
- Further, one may highlight, as if with a yellow marker, arbitrary
- passages of text in man pages and subsequently jump directly to these
- passages by selecting an identifying excerpt from a pulldown menu.
- Finally, TkMan gives one control over the directory-to-menu volume
- mapping of man pages with a capability similar to but superior to xman's
- mandesc in that rather than forcing all who share a man directory to
- follow a single organization, TkMan gives control to the individual. In
- fact, one may decide he has no use for a large set of man pages--say for
- instance the programmer routines in volumes 2, 3, 4, 8--and eliminate
- them from his personal database.
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