Re: tlug: tkman

[Totoro <riley@example.com>]

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>tlug note from Jim Schweizer <schweiz@example.com>
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>Hi all,
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>If you're like me, you have to read a lot of man pages. I never
>liked xman so I usually read them in an xterm which was okay but
>not great.
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>Then, I was reading the O'Reilly book Exploring Expect and it
>mentioned tkman as a *really* good man reader. I picked up the
>latest 2.0 beta and couldn't get it to run (it kept dieing with
>some kind of clock error at line 2668), then spent hours looking
>through all the CDs I have (Redhat, Slackware, Pacific HiTech,
>etc) looking for an earlier version.

A difficulty with the 2.0 version is that it requires tcl8, which
is at beta2, I think. I didn't want to install that, so am staying
with tkman 1.8 for now. The actual 1.8 has been out for awhile
now, but I'm not sure if anything was changed from b5, so it may
not be worth reinstalling.


>So by now, you're asking, 'Is it any good?' The answer is --
>it's great!

Can't argue with this!

David Riley
Hachinohe Institute of Technology
88-1, Myo, Ohbiraki  Hachinohe-shi  Aomori-ken


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