Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 10:44:43 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Chris Shenton <cshenton@uucom.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disable creating catman pages from unformatted man pages? Message-ID: <19990930104443.A7141@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <lfzoy431ma.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> References: <lfzoy431ma.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com>
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In the last episode (Sep 30), Chris Shenton said: > I'd like to be able to disable the automatic creation of formatted man > pages. I find generating the formatted pages for display on the fly > fast enough and am running low on disk on one of my systems. The man > page on man :-) mentions: > > If enabled by the system administrator, formatted man pages will > also be compressed with the `/usr/bin/gzip -c' command to save > space. > > It doesn't say how to disable generating them in the first place. > /etc/host.conf mentions compressing *un*formatted man pages (fine) but > nothing about creation of formatted pages. I don't see any relevant > fields in /etc/manpath.config either. Try removing /usr/share/man/cat* . If man cannot create the formatted file it will not complain. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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