From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 24 23:52:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA28178 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 23:52:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA28162 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 23:52:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA23747 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 08:52:28 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA11876; Fri, 25 Apr 1997 08:48:33 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970425084833.PY29232@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: <199704242358.TAA02237@spooky.rwwa.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704242358.TAA02237@spooky.rwwa.com>; from Robert Withrow on Apr 24, 1997 19:58:47 -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)