Re: doc-base package: All compression configurable?

To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@miriam.fuller.edu>
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: doc-base package: All compression configurable?
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@rosebud.sps.queensu.ca>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 19:47:44 -0400 (EDT)
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  Christoph> troff is not a CPU hog since it was designed a long time
  Christoph> ago. gzip uses CPU resources intensively AFAIK.

You forgot that the argument was about viewing manpages which are already
compressed. Here gunzip is used for uncompression, and it is light on cpu
(compared to compression).

So it remains that troff is the hog when viewing the bash manual page

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