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From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: man works sssslow
Date: 10 Jun 1994 18:09:27 GMT
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Ollivier Robert (roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net) wrote:
: In article <2t70u2$5e2@knobel.knirsch.de>,
: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.knirsch.de> wrote:
: >Yeah ! Using tbl xxx.1 | groff -Tps -man > xxx.1.PS you can create 
: >printed manual pages in "Postscript quality".
: You can do it faster by just typing :
		^^^^^^
: groff -t -man xxx.1 >xxx.1.ps
: You can even add a '-p' and a '-e' for pic and eqn preprocessing.

Faster, are you sure ?! In both cases the programm tbl must be forked.
Calling groff with the option -t doesn't mean, that groff has a faster
`builtin` tbl :) I tried it with time .... and used the big man1/gcc.1
manual page. Wait for your experiences...

	Andreas ///

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