Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:43:24 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Dan Langille <dan@langille.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: <20020122104324.B78733@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <15436.42142.53176.44467@caddis.yogotech.com> References: <20020119105733.A50299@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020118193019.28442D-100000@fledge.watson.org> <15436.42142.53176.44467@caddis.yogotech.com>
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:30:38PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > > > 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. > ``man -t'' should work. Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Oracle Developer/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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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