Re: Gzipping man files
Hi,
>>"Bruce" == Bruce Perens <bruce@pixar.com> writes:
From> Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>
Guy> Why do we not gzip man page source? I just confirmed that man, catman,
Guy> mandb, and xman all have no trouble with gzipped pages.
Bruce> What about that Emacs man page browser? I assume one exists :-) .
But of course (they don't give it a kitchen sink icon for
nothing). _And_ it works just fine with compressed man pages, since
it just calls man in the background and then cleans up stuff.
The next time I upload any of my packages, I'll gzip the man
pages, but I'm not uploading an new version just for compressed man
pages.
manoj
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