Re: hard time reading man pages in terminal

2012-04-02 Thread Chris Blouch
I'm always forgetting about bwana. It really is nice but old habits die hard. CB On 3/30/12 1:44 PM, Esther wrote: Hi Eric, Chris, and Others, My suggestion for reading man pages for terminal commands is to download the freeware program bwana: http://bruji.com/bwana/ This program lets you u

Re: hard time reading man pages in terminal

2012-03-30 Thread Esther
Hi Eric, Chris, and Others, My suggestion for reading man pages for terminal commands is to download the freeware program bwana: http://bruji.com/bwana/ This program lets you use your browser to read man pages, and for the example that Chris cited of reading the man page for "bash", you'd simpl

Re: hard time reading man pages in terminal

2012-03-30 Thread Chris Blouch
This was posted previously on the list to load up man pages using Preview: man -t bash | open -a preview -f Maybe that would do a better job. Of course you would replace bash with whatever command you actually wanted man pages for. I found it was somewhat readable with VO but sometimes jumped