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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!news.sprintlink.net!sundog.tiac.net!rick From: rick@vox.trystero.com (Richard E. Nickle) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: CAT manpages? Why the hell?? Date: 13 Feb 1995 21:38:19 GMT Organization: The Trystero System Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3hojgb$sg1@sundog.tiac.net> References: <3hjbk5$p5c@crh.cl.msu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: vox.trystero.com In article <3hjbk5$p5c@crh.cl.msu.edu>, Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> wrote: >Why are the man pages that are shipped with Net/FreeBSD in cat format instead >of nroff sources? Why why why!? Look closer. They're compressed nroff, not compressed cat [at least on FreeBSD, it's been awhile since I ran NetBSD, but I think it was the same thing, only uncompressed back on 0.9]. That might be what's confusing you, I know that cat manpages are normally compressed, and nroff sources are usually uncompressed. -- -- Richard Nickle http://www.trystero.com/rick.html