Metallah

Current program version: 0.14.
Last page commit: $Date: 2008/04/19 18:59:56

Metallah is a Web-based man page viewer. It has a thought out user interface, visual options tuning, and the ability to properly display localized manual pages.

Project is dead. No new features will be added, sorry.

1 Overview

Metallah doesn't do anything special except rendering manual pages.

Check what's new in 0.14 version.

Metallah features:

• Ability to see which physically file you are reading.
• ápropos-mode (inquiry is a regexp) with flexible navigation.
• The so-called directory mode, where you have an opportunity to click on the section name and browse through all man page titles.
• Localized manual pages support.
• View troff man page files which are not installed in system directories.
• Use any external command line converter, which can transmutate man(1) output into HTML.
• Run program from command line (with ability to take XA_PRIMARY selection).
• Visual options tuning. No cryptographic configuration files!
• Editable appearance via user CSS.
• Russian documentation :)

I don't want to buttonhole you with talks about the convenient interface. Just try it.

2 Screen Shots

3 Requirements

1. Web-server with CGI support.
2. Browser with CSS (optionally) and tables support.
3. file(1), nroff(1), gunzip(1), bunzip2(1) utilities.
4. Tcl 8.4 (I don't know will it work with earlier versions; it may or may not work with later versions).
5. Permissions for web-server to read system directories with manual pages.
6. Permissions for web-server to execute man(1).
7. Permission to write in the directory:
   • with installed Metallah (however, we need there only ability to modify on the fly .metallahrc file)
   • /tmp

The last item is not obligatory but you will lose visual options tuning or the program log or both.

4 Obtaining

N.B. At that moment program documentation is available in russian only. Translators are welcome!

Download current release.

5 Author

Copyright (c) 2005 Alexander Gromnizki <iwerdon.at.gmail.com>, Home Page.
All Rights Reserved. See LICENSE file inside program archive.