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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: man works sssslow
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
References: <2sjka9$qmd@panix2.panix.com> <2skprc$ho1@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 1994 12:39:54 GMT
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In <2skprc$ho1@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes:
>In article <2sjka9$qmd@panix2.panix.com>,
>Boris Pitel <scibp6p@panix.com> wrote:
>> Hi, everybody!
>> I have may be simple question. I just installed FreeBSD 1.0. Everything
>> seems to work OK as far as you can determine in 1/2 hour. But...
>> When I did "man ls" the system as usually told it's "reformating ....."
>> and was doing the reformating for 3-4 minutes.
>Hmm, with a 486-66 I have a REAL hard believing it took 3-4 minutes when on
>my box it took 3-4 seconds.
If it takes 3 to 4 minutes to format the page for ls, then something is wrong.
On on 486/33 here (which was busy doing a make world at the time) man ls
took 12 seconds.
If your machine is taking minutes to format manual pages, then something
else is wrong.
Geoff.
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