Re: Gzipping man files

[shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)]

At 1996-04-16 08:08, Guy Maor wrote:
> Anyway, it's decided.  Everybody start gzipping man pages.

Wait, why is this?  Does any other major Unix do this?  Won't this just be
another Linuxism?

Mostly I'm not sure it's a sensible optimization.  All my machines are
truly multitasking, so spending more CPU time on one thing will definitely
slow down other things.  And disk space is *so* cheap these days that it's
not worth it for a directory tree that is only a few megs large.

At worst, I would like this to be user-configurable somehow, because I do
*not* want gzipped manpages.

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