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