Date: Sun, 19 May 1996 18:01:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "Chris J. Layne" <coredump@nervosa.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: FreeBSD-current users <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: catman Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960519175531.580A-100000-100000-100000@onyx.nervosa.com> In-Reply-To: <199605190905.LAA00504@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sun, 19 May 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > The default for the man pages sources _is_ to keep them gzipped (and > yes, man/catman/makewhatis do know how to handle this). If you don't > like man page sources around, a simple That wasn't what I was referring to, I was referring to the difference between catman's preformatted ASCII pages vs the normal unformatted. > rm -rf /usr/share/man/man* This of course only is useful after you have catman'd all the pages, and it should be 'rm `find /usr/share/man|grep -v whatis`'. The downside to this is that you now have no whatis database so now whatis, apropos and man -k are all broke. > will do (as opposed to any black magic in catman(1)), as well as > disabling makewhatis (so the existing makewhatis databases won't be > clobbered). When you add more manpages you need to update the whatis databases, this update process will most likely clobber the old database because you already nuked the old unformatted man files. > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE == Chris Layne ======================================== Nervosa Computing == == coredump@nervosa.com ================ http://www.nervosa.com/~coredump ==
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