The "Tkman 1.0" Utility is a user-friendly manual page viewer developed using the Tcl/Tk toolkit. Author ------ Karthik Chandrasekaran (karthik@mpd.tandem.com) Prerequesites ------------- Tcl 7.4 and above Tk 4.0 and above Installation ------------ Modify the variables LIBDIR, BINDIR, WISHPATH in the configure script according to your settings and run configure. Can do I modify this ? --------------------- The source code is available for public use. This code can be modified and distributed provided the Author's name is noted. What environment variables should I set ? ----------------------------------------- The Environment variable MANPATH should be set to the list of directories having the manual pages. How to use this utility ? ------------------------- The "Command For Viewing : " entry can be used to enter the command for which you want the manual page. If there are multiple matches, a dialog box will pop up showing the matches. You can select one of the commands by "double- clicking" the left mouse button. Please note that the application window is grabbed which means that the dialog box has to be disposed off (by closing it or selecting a command) to enter further commands. The matches are stored in a selection list. The "Search for commands containing : " entry can be used to find commands which contain the string. In case of multiple matches, a dialog box is displayed as explained earlier. The "Search for commands that match : " can be used to find command names that match the input regular expression. For example if you want to list all commands that start with list, type "list*" in the entry box. The pattern matching is based on shell wildcard expansion. The "Search in text window : " can be used to search for some text within a command displayed in the text window. The "Next" and "Previous" buttons are used to find the next and previous matches respectively. The input should be regexp(3) form. In a text window, you can get a popup menu by clicking the right mouse button. The "Matches..." option can be used to reselect a command based on the previous matches. The "History ..." option shows a dialog box showing the last 20 commands that you have used. Bugs ---- If you find any bugs in this software or you have some suggestions on improving this software please send a mail to "karthik@mpd.tandem.com"