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Date:      Wed, 12 Apr 1995 17:53:57 +0200
From:      Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
To:        Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
Cc:        FREEBSD-CURRENT-L <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: /usr/share/man/cat? 
Message-ID:  <199504121553.RAA18922@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950412175637.17594T-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
References:  <9504120829.AA08757@ocegr.fr> <Pine.BSI.3.91.950412175637.17594T-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>

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Brian Tao writes:
>    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.

This should be in /etc/sysconfig:

# create cat directories in MANPATH (daily)
create_cat_dirs=YES

# preformat all manpages (weekly)
catman=NO

# remove unsed catpages (atime > 14 days)
remove_old_catpages=NO


Gruß Wolfram

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