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Date:      Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:20:46 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users)
Subject:   Re: /usr/share/man/cat? 
Message-ID:  <199504111920.VAA08392@grunt.grondar.za>

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> As Brian Tao wrote:
> > 
> >     Should the binaries or man page distribution create empty
> > /usr/share/man/cat[1-8] directories so that preformatted man pages can
> > be saved?  It took me a couple weeks to figure out that was why I
> > wasn't getting the "Formatting page, please wait..." message.  ;-)
> 
> The mtree files do specify the cat subdirs, so it's perhaps been a
> failure when building the distribution that they have been removed
> later.  (Somebody here wrote something that allot of empty dirs have
> been removed accidentally.)

This seems to be true of /usr/share/man/... but it is not the case in
/usr/local/man/... and /usr/X11R6/man/...

It this maybe what Brian was asking?

I had to make the local an X11R6 `cat' dirs myself.

M
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