Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 12:13:50 +0100 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de> To: Mike Pritchard <mpp@freefall.freebsd.org> Cc: wosch@apfel.de (Wolfram Schneider), wosch@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-user@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/groff/tmac doc-syms Message-ID: <199703251113.MAA00863@campa.panke.de> In-Reply-To: <199703250307.TAA04950@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <199703242354.AAA01830@campa.panke.de> <199703250307.TAA04950@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Mike Pritchard writes: >But the .Fx macro isn't really documentation so to speak. >All that adding releases that will never actually be specified >as parameters to the macro just results in more code >for *roff to execute. At least .Fx isn't called that much, >so it really isn't a big deal. But I can still remember running on >some older systems where I would groan if I saw the message >"Formatting page, please wait..." come out, due to the amount of >time it took to format. groff is written in C++ and it is terrible slow. Some hackers told me groff is 7 times slower than the original troff (C sources) from AT&T on a SunOS machine. >Maybe we need a releases(7) or history(7) man page to >document this type of thing. I can copy http://www.de.freebsd.org/de/ftp/unix-stammbaum to /usr/share/misc/bsd-family-tree. Wolfram
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