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From: Gabor Zahemszky <zgabor@CoDe.hu>
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Subject: Re: Pre-Formatting man pages?
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Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 18:34:06 +0000 (GMT)
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In-Reply-To: <199609162104.QAA18260@friley216.res.iastate.edu> from "Chris Csanady" at Sep 16, 96 04:04:51 pm
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> 
> 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?
> 
> This is one of the things that I miss from NetBSD.  Formatted (compressed or
> not) come up _much_ faster on a slow machine such as mine. ;)
> 
> Anyway, does anyone else desire such a thing?  If it would take you less than
> 5 minutes, please spare me the work. ;)
> 
> Later,
> Chris
> 
man catman
And one long evening, run it!


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