Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 02/05/2005 13:06:53
matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
>    On Feb 4, 2005, at 8:04 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>    
>    > They already have a purpose. You can build HTML man pages already --
>    > ross hacked the code. We just don't do it by default (though we could.)
>    
>    I believe that we should, in fact, enable this by default.
>
> hmmm.. there is 21MB in /usr/share/man/cat* or so.  adding the html
> versions seem like a waste of diskspace to me...

Depends on the platform. On a machine with a 300G hard drive, 21MB is
totally ignorable. On an old Vax, it is a big problem.

Perry