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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!gomel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!andreas 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 Organization: @ $HOME, 41469 Neuss, Germany Lines: 20 Message-ID: <2taa99$9i@knobel.knirsch.de> References: <2sjka9$qmd@panix2.panix.com> <2skprc$ho1@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <2t70u2$5e2@knobel.knirsch.de> <2t7pq9$3ah@keltia.frmug.fr.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.knirsch.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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 /// -- Andreas Klemm /\/\____ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH andreas@knobel.knirsch.de ___/\/\/ andreas@wupmon.wup.de (Unix Support)