Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 08:48:33 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org (freebsd-hackers) Subject: Re: manpages Message-ID: <19970425084833.PY29232@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199704242358.TAA02237@spooky.rwwa.com>; from Robert Withrow on Apr 24, 1997 19:58:47 -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970424113009.10264W-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> <199704242358.TAA02237@spooky.rwwa.com>
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As Robert Withrow wrote: > :- So it can write catpages into /usr/share/man/cat* > > Why, in this day and age, does it need to do that? Because not everyone is running it on an Alpha/600 MHz. Some large pages even take a noticable time to reformat on a > 100 MHz Pentium, and everything takes nearly infinite time on slow machines like my 386/sx16 notebook that often serves me as the low end marker. Remember, -mandoc format is much more complex than -man, it always required a lot of processing time. If you don't like this feature, simply remove the cat directories. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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