[knobby]

Has anyone considered an app that could replace the Help Center? I'd like something that could display both Apple's HTML Help pages and MAN pages with a search capability.. Ideally the man pages would be inserted into an HTML wrapper and parsed such that links to the 'SEE ALSO' items would be constructed.

Just a thought for those who might be looking a project to tackle..

[lindberg]

There are applications out there to display/search for man pages, including the hyperlinking. Look on versiontracker. I write one of them -- ManOpen -- so I'm a bit biased, but there's also Xmanview, GMan, and manThor.

NEXTSTEP had an application called Librarian that was a generic file indexer and searcher; you picked which directory trees were searched and these were typically all the documentation directories plus some others. It was a rather cool way to search for stuff. I think there's an MTLibrarian application out there that tries to do similar stuff, but I doubt it handles man pages in any special way. I haven't tried this app yet though. Look on Softrak at Stepwise or versiontracker.