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Re: Gzipping man files



> Good point, but the counterargument is that none of those have an
> additional heavy formatting step to go through.  IMHO groff is already
> slow enough; running a gzip alongside it would, I imagine, make it
> even worse.

On the contrary...  Gzip is very fast compared to groff and so would
not even be a noticeable addition.

                                        Brian
                               ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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