Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 21:28:43 -0700 (PDT) From: invalid opcode <coredump@nervosa.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: catman Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960518212339.18398A-100000@onyx.nervosa.com>
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It's obvious that catman is a Good Thing (tm), _except_ for the fact that the old man files are still laying around. I have come to my own conclusion that they are still needed because of makewhatis(1). I know it's possible to catman a binarie's, etc's, manpages instead of just gzip -9'ing them while doing a make world. Not only would this leave us with possibly smaller, or possibly bigger manpages, but they would be a whole lot faster, and the space savings would be about the same as having the old manpages. The only thing I can think of as a hinderance to this is makewhatis. Maybe we should make catman take on the responsibility of makewhatis, so at the time we catman a manpage, we also write an entry to /usr/share/man/whatis. Opinions wanted. == Chris Layne ======================================== Nervosa Computing == == coredump@nervosa.com ================ http://www.nervosa.com/~coredump ==
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