Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 16:30:38 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man Makefile man.c src/etc/mtree BSD.local.dist BSD.usr.dist BSD.x11-4.dist BSD.x11.dist Message-ID: <15436.42142.53176.44467@caddis.yogotech.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020118193019.28442D-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <20020119105733.A50299@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020118193019.28442D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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> > Not in this forum. But we're not typical of the user base. I will > > continue to use catman, probably making it world writeable, since in my > > situation this isn't a compromise. But what about the man in the > > street? > > The difference between the developers and the users is that the users > hardly ever change the man pages, and so would probably benefit most from > simply using the catman pages in a pregenerated form, rather than having > to wait for each page to render the first time they read it, gradually > consuming more and more disk space as they read more manpages. Except that this doesn't allow the 'users' to print out the pages in a form that may be more usable by them. For example, for most manpages, I simply type 'man', but sometimes I want to print out the manpage on my printer, so I create a postscript file that is formatted better, and prints out much nicer than the tradional 'dumb terminal' manpage that is created by default as the catpage. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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