Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 18:08:17 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> Cc: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> Subject: Re: man(1) oddity - was: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages... Message-ID: <20030519150817.GB49035@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <3EC8EFFD.1060702@tcoip.com.br> References: <20030520000655.F93323-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> <3EC8EFFD.1060702@tcoip.com.br>
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--hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:53:49AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Andy Farkas wrote: > > > >Arrghh. Why you not believe me when I have proved the user experience is > >different between 4.x and 5.x ????? >=20 > He isn't denying that. He's just claiming these 10 seconds are not a=20 > result of the man page being catpaged. >=20 Right. > I do have a question... on these examples, does the cat page exist or=20 > not, for each? >=20 It does not. If it exists and is up-to-date, it's just uncompressed (if it's compressed) and displayed. > And what happens in the other case (ie, if the cat page=20 > does not exist in these examples, what happens when it does exist)? >=20 If the catpage does not exist, it's either created (if the user has the write permission to the cat* directory) or the raw manpage gets formatted, and the output is piped to the PAGER. Piped, not ";"ed, hence no message. If we are to add the message, it should be "Formatting and displaying the page, please wait..." which is silly (IMO). --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+yPNhUkv4P6juNwoRAlIMAJ9B3drca7ZwP4sQjpRs5J16ameY/QCghyKZ 4rFisafx+t1GzA5vfG4WbHQ= =T5tH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --hQiwHBbRI9kgIhsi--
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