Reading man pages in macvim?

Hi,
I would like to read man pages in macvim. In a macvim window, I tried :!man perltoot, but I got this:
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
(press Return)
After hitting return, the man page displayed, but it was in white text (v. vivid chalk), and navigating up and down was herky, jerky.
I found the following shell script that purportedly will display colorized man pages in macvim, but it doesn't work for me:
function tman {
man "${1}" | col -b | /usr/local/bin/gview - 1>/dev/null 2>&1
I used find to search my whole hard drive for gview, but I don't have that anywhere.
Message was edited by: 7stud
Message was edited by: 7stud

Thanks for the responses.
runtime! ftplugin/man.vim
:Man perltoot
That causes an annoying split screen to appear. I found I could get rid of the empty portion by clicking my mouse in the empty split screen, and then hitting <esc>:quit.
Message was edited by: 7stud

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