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Re: CVS commit: src



matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> 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



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