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From: roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: man works sssslow
Date: 11 Jun 1994 17:43:42 +0200
Organization: A Happy FreeBSD-current Usenet Site
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In article <2taa99$9i@knobel.knirsch.de>,
Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.knirsch.de> wrote:
>: 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.

Less keystrockes to type, really :-)

As for   the processing speed, it  is  much the  same as  groff do the pipe
itself.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT                                           roberto@hsc.fr.net
Hervé Schauer Consultants                Ollivier.Robert@keltia.frmug.fr.net
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