Bruce Perens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 14 November 1995 16:35: >I thought about switching on man page compression a while back, and did >not because I wanted to allow for other manual pagers than man_db >that might not handle it. It is probably worth doing at some point. >I think we can compress both the source and the cat files, though
Any decent man program handles compressed pages. If you have one that doesn't it's a very good reason to ditch it. >compressing the cat files is only worthwhile if the uncompressor >runs very quickly. zcat runs fast enough from my experience. In fact, the only argument I have in favour of uncompressed pages is that you can run a grep in the entire directory to search for something. For example, I found the file /etc/gateways and didn't know what it was about. I did a grep and found it in the routed page. BTW, why does this file exist in my installation if I haven't installed the package? Also, I found other files that shouldn't be there, for example smb.conf (of course I didn't install samba). Carlos
