I just discovered another reason I would like to keep catpages, or at the very least support for them if the admin cares to enable it.
I was on a 9.1 system (for work, not that that matters to my point) booted single-user. And look: # man installboot man: Formatting manual page... man: /tmp/man.4oCSiZ: Read-only file system # Perhaps this is fixable; in theory it certainly is - feeding the source to nroff -mandoc and piping the output to less -s works - but if that's an excuse, then, the very least, man(1) should be taught to do that. And, of course, when you're up single-user is, generally, when you're least able to bring other tools to bear or the like, and when you're possibly most likely need to know how to use a command you don't use enough to have memorized. Fortunately, in this case I wasn't trying to recover a half-crashed system; nroff | less actually did work. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
