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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions From: ian@helen.demon.co.uk (Ian Newham) Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!demon!helen.demon.co.uk!ian Subject: Re: man works sssslow References: <2sjka9$qmd@panix2.panix.com> <CqsD1r.243M@ns1.nodak.edu> Organization: (none) Reply-To: ian@helen.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 2.0 (ka9q DIS 1.24) Lines: 16 Date: Sat, 11 Jun 1994 15:22:16 +0000 Message-ID: <771348136snz@helen.demon.co.uk> Sender: usenet@demon.co.uk In article <CqsD1r.243M@ns1.nodak.edu> tinguely@plains.NoDak.edu writes: > you can run the program "catman" to format all of the *roff man pages into > cat files. This will eliminate the "refomating ..." messages, but will also > eat disk space. Sometime ago I remember someone talking about having man pages compressed on disk (gz?) and uncompressing them on the fly when you read that page. sounds like a good compromise between space/access time. anyone know if/how it's done? I think I saw it in the NetBSD-current mailing list. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Ian Newham Nottingham, U.K. | | ian@helen.demon.co.uk | +----------------------------------------------------+