From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 12 03:00:08 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA07060 for current-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 03:00:08 -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 CAA07044 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 02:59:55 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA18555; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 18:00:08 +0800 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 18:00:07 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao cc: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/cat? In-Reply-To: <9504120829.AA08757@ocegr.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 12 Apr 1995 Gert-Jan.Vons@ocegr.fr wrote: > > Provided the cat? directories are created and the owner and group are set > properly, man will handle this automatically. It formats the page the first > time you request it, and stores the preformatted version for later use. Right, but I figured keen-eyed users might notice that their disk space is decreasing without any apparent reason (if they don't know about man saving preformatted pages). I thought we might consider going all-out and formatting all the man pages at the start so the user knows what's going on. On second thought, it would make the manpage distribution much larger (if we provided the cat pages) or take a heck of a long time to generate (if the installer runs catman). In any case, I still think the cat directories should be included in the manpage dist, if not the base binary dist. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org