From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 12 08:54:56 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA16553 for current-outgoing; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 08:54:56 -0700 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (mail.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.17.13]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA16542 for ; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 08:54:51 -0700 Received: from caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (wosch@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de [130.149.18.7]) by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id RAA05236; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 17:54:05 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider Received: (wosch@localhost) by caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de (8.6.10/8.6.9) id RAA18922; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 17:53:57 +0200 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 17:53:57 +0200 Message-Id: <199504121553.RAA18922@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Brian Tao Cc: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/cat? In-Reply-To: References: <9504120829.AA08757@ocegr.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 -- http://hyperg.cs.tu-berlin.de/C~wosch