Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 12:09:02 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: man(1) oddity - was: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages... Message-ID: <20030502120132.D60788-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030502014308.GA92123@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1)
> > support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has
> > it), and then switch the default compression method from
> > gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs.
> > (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.)
As a normal user, the "Formatting page, please wait..." message never
appears, whereas it does for root.
IMHO this is a mild POLA violation.
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Andy Farkas
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Speednet Communications
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