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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:33:04 -0500
From: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
To: Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des@des.no>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r194493 - head/usr.bin/catman
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On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:48:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > This kinda brings up the question, do we actually need catman(1) at all
> > these days of fast CPU and disks and plenty of RAM?
>=20
> Show me the fast CPU and plenty of RAM on this board:
>=20
> http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm

For such hardware, the OpenBSD mdoc renderer is likely to be a better
fit anyway.  It's orders of magnitude faster than *roff and wouldn't
waste space on catpages that will in all likely hood never be used.

-- Brooks

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