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- From: blh@hpuerca.atl.hp.com (Bill Hassell)
- Subject: Re: Another laserrom query
- Message-ID: <C1A5It.I78@hpuerca.atl.hp.com>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:04:04 GMT
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- Organization: the HP Response Center, Atlanta
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- Most folks don't like man pages because they can grow from a few
- megs to almost two dozen megs over time as the pages are formatted.
-
- If you have more time than disk space, you can remove the files and
- directories in /usr/man that start with the word cat. These directories hold
- formatted pages and if they do not exist, the formatted man page will not be
- saved, thus saving a goodly amount of space. From then on, every request for
- a man page will have the famous Reformatting entry. Wait... message and the
- man pages will not grow as they are used.
-
- Another variation is to leave just cat1.Z and cat1m.Z directories which
- means that the commands (section 1 and 1m) will stay formatted but the
- less used sections will be formatted on request. These two sections need
- about 3 megs if everything is formatted (see man catman) for a total of
- around 11 megs using 1 and 1m formatted and the rest unformatted.
-
- Bill (looking for disk-space in all the wrong places) Hassell
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