Re: Another minor Debian 0.91 buglet
Pat Mackinlay <pat@it.com.au> writes:
> Dan Quinlan's sman is formatting and compressing manpages perfectly
> correctly, but the resultant compressed formatted file is being
> given a ".z" extension, rather than the ".gz" being used by gzip
> these days.
Just a small note: it isn't my sman.
sman was written by Darren Senn who I have been unable to contact.
I've only fixed some bugs and made some small improvements. I hope to
improve upon it quite a bit, but unfortunately I haven't been able to
spend any significant amount of time on it.
If anyone wants to help improve upon it, I will be quite happy to
incorporate (good) changes. The source will be a part of the Debian
source distribution. It is copyrighted by Darren Senn, but is freely
redistributable.
sman does use ".gz" and comes with `catman', a C-based replacement for
`makewhatis' that works rather well (and quickly too).
Dan
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Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@spectrum.cs.bucknell.edu>
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