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Date:      Tue, 22 Jan 2002 10:43:24 +0200
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/man/man Makefile man.c src/etc/mtree BSD.local.dist BSD.usr.dist BSD.x11-4.dist BSD.x11.dist
Message-ID:  <20020122104324.B78733@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <15436.42142.53176.44467@caddis.yogotech.com>
References:  <20020119105733.A50299@wantadilla.lemis.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020118193019.28442D-100000@fledge.watson.org> <15436.42142.53176.44467@caddis.yogotech.com>

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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 04:30:38PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote:
> > > Not in this forum.  But we're not typical of the user base.  I will
> > > continue to use catman, probably making it world writeable, since in my
> > > situation this isn't a compromise.  But what about the man in the
> > > street? 
> > 
> > The difference between the developers and the users is that the users
> > hardly ever change the man pages, and so would probably benefit most from
> > simply using the catman pages in a pregenerated form, rather than having
> > to wait for each page to render the first time they read it, gradually
> > consuming more and more disk space as they read more manpages.
> 
> Except that this doesn't allow the 'users' to print out the pages in a
> form that may be more usable by them.
> 
> For example, for most manpages, I simply type 'man', but sometimes I
> want to print out the manpage on my printer, so I create a postscript
> file that is formatted better, and prints out much nicer than the
> tradional 'dumb terminal' manpage that is created by default as the
> catpage.
> 
``man -t'' should work.


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