Announcing RTFM the ManPage Browser and Viewer

gnashley · 05-19-2006, 09:08 AM

After seeing so many people told to use RTFM, I decided such a program was highly needed.
rtfm is a man-page browser and viewer. The browser has search functions
useful for finding the 'last word' on your favorite manual topic. It's based on Gman. You can view pages in an aterm, with gv or (best) with the included coolman viewer, which is taken from cooledit sources.

This directory contains the sources, build script and a Slack-10.2 installable package(rtfm-0.6.0-i486-1.tgz):

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...ts/rtfm/0.6.0/

Only GTK-1.2 and Lesstif are needed for this to work. The CoolWidget
libraries used by coolman/rtfmviewer are statically compiled into the binary, so cooledit is not needed.

truthfatal · 05-19-2006, 09:36 AM

fricking neato!

I get a couple errors when it loads.. I imagine because I don't have gimptool installed?
#(edit) rather, gimptool-2.0 is installed and that is the name of the man page.

Code:

truthfatal@Tweaker:~$ rtfm
error getting state of /usr/man/man1/gimptool.1.gz: No such file or directory
error getting state of /usr/share/man/man1/gimptool.1.gz: No such file or directory

#(edit continued) weird, because slocate tells me that /usr/man/man1/gimptool.1.gz does exist...

also, it looks like it trys to open the manpages in aterm by default rather than xterm

Code:

truthfatal@Tweaker:/home/truthfatal:~$ rtfm
error getting state of /usr/man/man1/gimptool.1.gz: No such file or directory
error getting state of /usr/share/man/man1/gimptool.1.gz: No such file or directory
sh: aterm: command not found

this is easily remedied by hitting ^v. and using ManView instead

gnashley · 05-19-2006, 10:35 AM

Sorry, I forgot about using aterm. I edited the post above.