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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 10:17:58 -0600 (CST)
From: David Kelly <dkelly@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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To: crtb@capecod.net, grog@lemis.com
Subject: Re: Why is man so slow?
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> >On Thu, Nov 06, 1997 at 10:38:02PM -0500, Chuck wrote:
> 	[ ... ]
> >Could it be that you are missing the directories
> >/usr/share/man/cat[1-9], or they are not writeable?  When a new
> 
> Sho nuff!  So I just created 'em, gave 'em to man.bin, and voila!
> 
> >version of the system is installed, the contents of these directories
> >are removed, and the first time you access a man page, it needs to be
> >formatted with nroff.  It then *tries* to save the formatted man page
> >in the cat* hierarchy, but if it doesn't succeed, it won't complain,

What I usually do:
% su		# this gets me to root
# su man	# this makes me "man"
% catman `manpath` &	# pre-nroff the man pages
% exit
# exit
%

The above is good for several hours of disk crunching.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm)
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The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its
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