Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:55:32 -0700 From: Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of catman from base Message-ID: <20170912185532.GF99742@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <77524.1505242222@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20170912184200.GD99742@gmail.com> <77524.1505242222@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:50:22PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > -------- > In message <20170912184200.GD99742@gmail.com>, Gordon Tetlow writes: > > >With modern hardware, it doesn't seem to be necessary to have pre-formatted > >man pages as rendering them is short enough to not be noticeable. > > That was actually not why catman was brought into the world: ATT/USL > thought text-processing was The Goods so they unbundled it base SVR > and invented catman to make up for the missing nroff. Okay, that seems reasonable. I don't think it changes the desire to remove it (unless I'm missing something). Gordon
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