From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 11 11:02:19 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id LAA25079 for current-outgoing; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 11:02:19 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id LAA25039 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 11:00:47 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA26506; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 19:55:47 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id TAA03377 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 19:55:46 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA04590 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 19:39:14 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504111739.TAA04590@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/cat? To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 19:39:13 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: from "Brian Tao" at Apr 11, 95 01:29:24 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 673 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)