Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 21:38:19 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man(1) oddity - was: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages... Message-ID: <20030519213449.Y93323-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030519113137.GF17366@sunbay.com>
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On Mon, 19 May 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:26:26PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> >
> > Here is a table of what I *really* see:
> >
> > FreeBSD-4.8:
> > | no catpage | catpage
> > Normal user | fmt msg, waits | no msg, no wait
> > Super user | fmt msg, waits | no msg, no wait
> >
> > FreeBSD-5.1-B:
> >
> > Normal user | no msg, waits | no msg, no wait
> > Super user | fmt msg, waits | no msg, no wait
> >
> >
> > The difference is Normal user.
> >
> This example is wrong. With your example you're timing the
> formatting of the whole manpage, and I'm telling you that
> normal man(1) invocation (with PAGER) will start showing you
> something on your terminal much sooner.
No, thats what I *really* *see* without redirection or anything. Plain old
`man ppp` command. I only used the `> /dev/null` example because the same
thing is experienced by the user.
Please boot up 5.1-B on a slow box and type 'man ppp'. You'll see what I
mean then.
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Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
http://www.speednet.com.au/
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