From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 19:12:29 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id TAA00552 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 19:12:29 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA00526 for ; Tue, 25 Apr 1995 19:12:09 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA03771; Tue, 25 Apr 95 20:05:34 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504260205.AA03771@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: Just three questions To: eaparis@tinman.mke.ab.com (Eloy A. Paris) Date: Tue, 25 Apr 95 20:05:34 MDT Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504260058.TAA11714@tinman.mke.ab.com> from "Eloy A. Paris" at Apr 25, 95 07:58:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 1) Are the IBM and National PCMCIA cards the only PCMCIA cards than can be > used in FreeBSD?. I know that Xircom cards (the one I have) are not > supported but it happens that I have a Megahertz modem that I am not able to > use I do not know why. In the documentation, the FAQs, the WWW site and > other places I have not seen anything about other PCMCIA cards. I'm not sure about this. It may be an architectural issue with the idea of PCMCIA "enablers" or you may just be using less-than-current code. > 2) Why when I type the command "man " it takes so long to display > the corresponding manual page?. In Linux and other UNIX systems as well, > that is very fast. You have a laptop and you have to ask? 8-). The man pages are stored compressed and preformmatted, but the first time you use them, it has to format them up. This is to save you disk spce in general. You may want to turn off the compression, and if you are a glutton, preformat all of them. I believe there are option on the man configuration files that deal with this -- do a "man man" and look for the "Files" section. > 3) Is it okay to make this kind of questions here or should I go to a > specific Newsgroup?. I know you are busy people that are working very hard. The questions list is what this is for, although there is talk about revamping the whole thing to offer better/faster/more personal support. Stay tuned! Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.