Morinfo information and download page

Morinfo is a (prototype) tool for displaying man pages, file system information, etc. It also serves as a testbed for certain aspects of Spotlight, Apple's file system search facility, but the implementation should be portable to any Unixish operating system.

Information

The current implementation is written as a Perl Common Gateway Interface (CGI) script, aided by a small snippet of AppleScript. The dot program (part of AT&T's Graphviz suite) is used to generate context and navigation diagrams.

Note: Unfortunately, because the Mac OS X port of dot uses QuickDraw, diagrams are not available on platforms (e.g., G4, G5) that use Quartz Extreme. (Quartz Extreme is restricted to the "current user"; Morinfo's CGI script, alas, runs as www.)

Morinfo's motivation and design are described in Appendix C of

Future versions of Morinfo may well use Ruby on Rails. Alternatively, Morinfo may be subsumed into a Semantic Wiki. Stay tuned!

Downloads

Note: Mac OS X users will want to download the DMG file. The compressed tar archive is only provided to allow use on other Unixish operating systems.