Re: Gzipping man files
>>"Michael" == Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net> writes:
Michael> At 1996-04-16 08:08, Guy Maor wrote:
>> Anyway, it's decided. Everybody start gzipping man pages.
Michael> Wait, why is this? Does any other major Unix do this? Won't
Michael> this just be another Linuxism?
Nope. At least DEC and HP do this as well.
__> uname -a
OSF1 belthil.pilgrim.umass.edu T4.0 345 alpha
__> ls -s /usr/man/man1/man.1.gz
11 /usr/man/man1/man.1.gz
__>
Michael> Mostly I'm not sure it's a sensible optimization. All my machines are
Michael> truly multitasking, so spending more CPU time on one thing
Michael> will definitely slow down other things. And disk space is
Michael> *so* cheap these days that it's not worth it for a directory
Michael> tree that is only a few megs large.
Are you sure that this will make things slower? Have you
tested it? care to share the results?
Michael> At worst, I would like this to be user-configurable somehow,
Michael> because I do *not* want gzipped manpages.
manoj
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