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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: man pages on FreeBSD
Date: 7 May 1995 08:53:07 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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Message-ID: <3oi1pj$t7@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
References: <3oaj4g$6lv@pilot.njin.net>
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In article <3oaj4g$6lv@pilot.njin.net>, Richard C. Gaine <rgaine@pilot.njin.net> wrote:
>
>Why does it take so long for man pages to come up under FreeBSD?
Because the distribution by default does not create the cat*
directories to hold the preformatted pages (I think it should). It
has to uncompress and run the pages through nroff each time you bring
up a man page.
su to root and create the following directories in /usr/share/man:
cat1
cat2
cat3
cat4
cat5
cat6
cat7
cat8
Do this in all your manpage directories, if you have them (e.g.,
/usr/local/man, /usr/contrib/man, /usr/X11R6/man, etc.). Now when you
bring up a man page for the first time, it will say "Formatting page,
please wait". On subsequent tries, the man page will pop up right
away.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org