Problem with macports install, any help greatly appreciated

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 14, 2010, at 10:05, Scott Haneda wrote:

> On Jun 14, 2010, at 6:44 AM, joseph davison wrote:
> 
>> One thing that might be useful is
>> sudo install manopen
>> 
>> That will install a tool that lets you read "man[ual] pages" easily for the unix-y tools installed on your system.
>> Many programs (probably including gimp -- I haven't tried it) that come from the unix world are / were  documented using "man pages", and this lets you read them.
> 
> I must have missed a thread, but what is wrong with the built in 'man' that is available to all Mac OS X installs.

"man" is a command-line tool for reading manual pages.

ManOpen is a Mac app with an Aqua user interface for doing the same thing.