From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 11 12:22:31 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA00203 for current-outgoing; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 12:22:31 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA00192 for ; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 12:22:14 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id VAA08392; Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:20:47 +0200 Message-Id: <199504111920.VAA08392@grunt.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grunt.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/cat? Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:20:46 +0200 From: Mark Murray 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.) This seems to be true of /usr/share/man/... but it is not the case in /usr/local/man/... and /usr/X11R6/man/... It this maybe what Brian was asking? I had to make the local an X11R6 `cat' dirs myself. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200