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From: tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Subject: Re: man works sssslow
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In article <2sjka9$qmd@panix2.panix.com> scibp6p@panix.com (Boris Pitel) writes:

> When I did "man ls" the system as usually told  it's "reformating ....."

you can run the program "catman" to format all of the *roff man pages into
cat files. This will eliminate the "refomating ..." messages, but will also
eat disk space.

--mark.