Date: Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:20:46 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/cat? Message-ID: <199504111920.VAA08392@grunt.grondar.za>
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> As Brian Tao wrote: > > > > Should the binaries or man page distribution create empty > > /usr/share/man/cat[1-8] directories so that preformatted man pages can > > be saved? It took me a couple weeks to figure out that was why I > > wasn't getting the "Formatting page, please wait..." message. ;-) > > The mtree files do specify the cat subdirs, so it's perhaps been a > failure when building the distribution that they have been removed > later. (Somebody here wrote something that allot of empty dirs have > been removed accidentally.) This seems to be true of /usr/share/man/... but it is not the case in /usr/local/man/... and /usr/X11R6/man/... It this maybe what Brian was asking? I had to make the local an X11R6 `cat' dirs myself. M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200
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