Re: plug-and-play heads-up notice

["Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> It strikes me that compressed man pages and compressed GNU info pages would
> make the plug-and-play system somewhat smaller, at what we have established
> to be a very small (Daniel Quinlan said about 1%) expense in CPU time.
> This doesn't mean that every package should install compressed man pages right
> away, but I think it would be useful for package maintainers to place
> compressed man pages in their packages when it is convenient for them to do so.

And, since CDs are significantly slower than HDs (though more so at seeking
that transfer rate), having them compressed should provide some improvement.

                                        Brian
                               ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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