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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!scsing.switch.ch!swidir.switch.ch!univ-lyon1.fr!itesec!keltia.frmug.fr.net!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 17 Message-ID: <2tcm3s$1uo@keltia.frmug.fr.net> References: <2sjka9$qmd@panix2.panix.com> <2t70u2$5e2@knobel.knirsch.de> <2t7pq9$3ah@keltia.frmug.fr.net> <2taa99$9i@knobel.knirsch.de> Reply-To: roberto@hsc.fr.net (Ollivier Robert) NNTP-Posting-Host: keltia.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 PERL / MIME / PGP 2.6ui FreeBSD keltia 1.1.0(Current) CURRENT_099#0 i386