From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 26 07:21:41 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA27398 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 07:21:41 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA27346 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 07:21:35 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id WAA02823; Wed, 26 Apr 1995 22:20:34 +0800 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 22:20:32 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: "Eloy A. Paris" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Just three questions In-Reply-To: <199504260058.TAA11714@tinman.mke.ab.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 25 Apr 1995, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > > 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. The default manpage distribution for FreeBSD does not create the /usr/share/man/cat[1-8] directories where preformatted man pages are stored. Once you create them, you will see this the first time you bring up a man page: % man ls Formatting page, please wait... [man page here] The formatted version is then stored in the appropriate "cat" directory. When you call up that man page again, the formatted version is displayed instead. Even a huge man page (like tcsh(1), over 200K) comes up instantly. The trade-off here is speed vs. space. Peeking over at my friend's Linux box, his preformatted man pages take up an additional 5 megabytes (that doesn't include local software or X11 stuff). The "catman" command will hunt around for all your man pages and generated preformatted ones for you (instead of waiting for you to call each one up as you need them). -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org