On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:50:22PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > -------- > In message <20170912184200.gd99...@gmail.com>, Gordon Tetlow writes: > > >With modern hardware, it doesn't seem to be necessary to have pre-formatted > >man pages as rendering them is short enough to not be noticeable. > > That was actually not why catman was brought into the world: ATT/USL > thought text-processing was The Goods so they unbundled it base SVR > and invented catman to make up for the missing nroff.
Okay, that seems reasonable. I don't think it changes the desire to remove it (unless I'm missing something). Gordon _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
