Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 08:18:00 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net> To: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: groff alternative? Message-ID: <200504270618.j3R6I0cT007044@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: Message from Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net> of "Tue, 26 Apr 2005 20:10:41 %2B0200." <200504262010.49509@harrymail>
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> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org I dropped freebsd-question@freebsd.org to avoid cross posting, deprecated on FreeBSD.org lists. Emanuel Strobl wrote: > --nextPart3677596.j3orVY53Xm > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="us-ascii" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > > Hello, > > I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to ~50MB=20 > including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing if I don't=20 > build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the needed libstdc++ it cos= > ts=20 > me about 10MB. If I just skip NO_CXX it's only 500k more, so I moved my=20 > patches to /dev/null. > > Now I wrote a port for GNU/groff, but this also consumes 9974k by default a= > nd=20 > I don't want to include patches into that port to strip down groff, if that= > =20 > was possible at all. > > Does anybody know any alternative for the groff part to view man pages simp= > ly=20 > with the man command? It's horrible that the filter needs more space than a= > ll=20 > the manpages itself! > > And of course, even if I decide to leave system man pages outside the flash= > =20 > card I still may want to read man pages of installed packages (which is=20 > another mountpoint on my installation, so there may be no space limit,=20 > depending on the card and additional drives) > > Thanks, > > =2DHarry Years back "Phil Cockcroft" <phil@cockcroft.de> cc'd wrote a simple roff tool for ascii formatting .rof stuff eg Unix manuals. Ran under dos & Unix. Some files are dated 1994. http://berklix.com/~jhs/src/odds/c/unix4dos/nroff du: 110K, doesnt need C++, Might need a little macro faking/ tweaking to do modern BSD manuals. - Julian Stacey Net & Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Mail in Ascii (Html=Spam). Ihr Rauch = mein allergischer Kopfschmerz.
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