Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 17:53:57 +0200 From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: FREEBSD-CURRENT-L <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: /usr/share/man/cat? Message-ID: <199504121553.RAA18922@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950412175637.17594T-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> References: <9504120829.AA08757@ocegr.fr> <Pine.BSI.3.91.950412175637.17594T-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
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Brian Tao writes: > Right, but I figured keen-eyed users might notice that their disk >space is decreasing without any apparent reason (if they don't know >about man saving preformatted pages). I thought we might consider >going all-out and formatting all the man pages at the start so the >user knows what's going on. On second thought, it would make the >manpage distribution much larger (if we provided the cat pages) or >take a heck of a long time to generate (if the installer runs catman). >In any case, I still think the cat directories should be included in >the manpage dist, if not the base binary dist. This should be in /etc/sysconfig: # create cat directories in MANPATH (daily) create_cat_dirs=YES # preformat all manpages (weekly) catman=NO # remove unsed catpages (atime > 14 days) remove_old_catpages=NO Gruß Wolfram -- http://hyperg.cs.tu-berlin.de/C~wosch
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