Re: Gzipping man files
On 16 Apr 1996, Manoj Srivastava < wrote:
> 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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> Manoj Srivastava Systems Research Programmer, Project Pilgrim,
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