Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:12:51 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r194493 - head/usr.bin/catman Message-ID: <20090622011251.GA3734@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <86skhty76e.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <200906191552.n5JFqZcG047705@svn.freebsd.org> <20090620130238.N29302@delplex.bde.org> <20090621134826.GA44901@FreeBSD.org> <86skhty76e.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:48:09PM +0200 I heard the voice of Dag-Erling Smørgrav, and lo! it spake thus: > Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > This kinda brings up the question, do we actually need catman(1) at all > > these days of fast CPU and disks and plenty of RAM? > > Show me the fast CPU and plenty of RAM on this board: Actually, I looked at this sort of things some years ago when I was sitting in front of a PPro (which was way outdated by that time), and even the largest manpage I could find in base didn't take more than 6 or 8 seconds to render. Now, a PPro 200 probably has rather more suds than a net4801, but it's not a huge difference. One can come up with situations where there's reason to use catman, but my conclusion at the time was that I couldn't come up with any value in man(1) writing out catpages. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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