On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:48:09PM +0200 I heard the voice of Dag-Erling Smørgrav, and lo! it spake thus: > Alexey Dokuchaev <da...@freebsd.org> writes: > > This kinda brings up the question, do we actually need catman(1) at all > > these days of fast CPU and disks and plenty of RAM? > > Show me the fast CPU and plenty of RAM on this board:
Actually, I looked at this sort of things some years ago when I was sitting in front of a PPro (which was way outdated by that time), and even the largest manpage I could find in base didn't take more than 6 or 8 seconds to render. Now, a PPro 200 probably has rather more suds than a net4801, but it's not a huge difference. One can come up with situations where there's reason to use catman, but my conclusion at the time was that I couldn't come up with any value in man(1) writing out catpages. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fulle...@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream. _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
