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Date:      Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:10:00 -0600
From:      Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/13869: man program saves multiple cached copies of the same file 
Message-ID:  <4.2.0.58.19990921090609.04572f00@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <40156.937910205@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
References:  <Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 20:21:59 MST." <19990921032159.6862C14CC9@hub.freebsd.org>

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Good! It'll be nice to move this away from GNU software as well.

The main type of wastage, under the current system, is not really
space but programmers' and users' time. The system has to send more 
things through groff, which is a CPU and memory hog even on our 
fastest machines. I drum my fingers waiting for man pages to appear
even on our new Athlon  server.

What's more, the cache is filled more quickly, so man pages must
be passed through groff more often.

A better indexing system would be most welcome! Let me know if you'd
like some help doing indexing, as I have indexed books before.

--Brett

At 12:36 PM 9/21/99 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:


>On Mon, 20 Sep 1999 20:21:59 MST, brett@lariat.org wrote:
>
> > The "man" program doesn't recognize when multiple links exist to a file
> > containing a man page, and therefore creates multiple cached copies
> > of the formatted file.
>
>Yeah, but it's not a critical problem, given the size of the object
>duplication we're talking about.
>
>Mike Pritchard and I plan to teach man, whatis and friends to use a
>proper database. That'll make this a moot point.
>
>Ciao,
>Sheldon.



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