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Date:      Tue, 11 Apr 1995 19:39:13 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: /usr/share/man/cat?
Message-ID:  <199504111739.TAA04590@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950411131157.27404E-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> from "Brian Tao" at Apr 11, 95 01:29:24 pm

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As Brian Tao wrote:
> 
>     Should the binaries or man page distribution create empty
> /usr/share/man/cat[1-8] directories so that preformatted man pages can
> be saved?  It took me a couple weeks to figure out that was why I
> wasn't getting the "Formatting page, please wait..." message.  ;-)

The mtree files do specify the cat subdirs, so it's perhaps been a
failure when building the distribution that they have been removed
later.  (Somebody here wrote something that allot of empty dirs have
been removed accidentally.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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