From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 18 13:16:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA04567 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:16:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from inga.augusta.de (root@inga.augusta.de [193.175.23.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA04537 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 1996 13:16:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rabbit by inga.augusta.de with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0v3SxZ-004d3HC; Wed, 18 Sep 96 22:11 MET DST Received: by rabbit.augusta.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0v37Tg-000AGvC; Tue, 17 Sep 96 23:14 MET DST Message-Id: Date: Tue, 17 Sep 96 23:14 MET DST X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Organization: Privat Site running FreeBSD References: <199609162104.QAA18260@friley216.res.iastate.edu> From: shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout) Subject: Re: Pre-Formatting man pages? X-Original-Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.questions In-Reply-To: <199609162104.QAA18260@friley216.res.iastate.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In article <199609162104.QAA18260@friley216.res.iastate.edu>, ccsanady@friley216.res.iastate.edu (Chris Csanady) writes: > There doesnt seem to be a simple way of doing this, and I was wondering If > anyone would mind implementing such a thing. It would be nice if there were a > variable analagous to the NOMANCOMPRESS in /etc/make.conf. NOMANFORMAT > perhaps? take a lock in /etc/weekly: #echo "Reformatting manual pages:" #echo catman.local "${MANPATH}" | su -fm man and uncomment this ... -- Greeting, Andy running FreeBSD-current ---------------------------------------------------------------------------