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Date:      Fri, 16 May 2003 15:47:23 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
To:        Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: man(1) oddity - was: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages...
Message-ID:  <20030516124723.GE2047@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030502120132.D60788-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
References:  <20030502014308.GA92123@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030502120132.D60788-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>

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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 12:09:02PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> > 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.)
>=20
> As a normal user, the "Formatting page, please wait..." message never
> appears, whereas it does for root.
>=20
> IMHO this is a mild POLA violation.
>=20
For a normal user, man(1) no longer creates the catpages.
This is still being revised (by me).


Cheers,
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Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
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ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer,
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