Re: alternative man page reader?
On Thu, May 13, 1999 at 11:17:57PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
:
: On 13-May-99 Bradley Bell wrote:
: > has anybody thought about packaging an alternative to the man-db/groff
: > combination for reading man pages? 4mb is a lot for small systems, and
: > reading man pages is pretty much a neccessity.
:
: Maybe I am wrong here but, how else are you gonna do it? man pages are written
: in roff format (think of it as old html). Any other man reader would have to
: speak roff as well.
groff is only needed for `formatting' the man pages. If you preformat
all the pages you can fire groff and have you man pages anyway. But I don't
know about disk usage of the preformatted pages and if it's easy to
. format all pages
. delete all unformatted pages
. remove groff
. use the formatted pages from /var/catman/ only
w/o braking something.
Best Regards from Dresden/Germany
Viele Gruesse aus Dresden
Heiko Schlittermann
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