On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
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.
Leaving out the size issue (which I think is valid), I only use "man foo" on NetBSD. If I want webpages, I go to the manpage search on www.NetBSD.org.
Maybe this discussion should be moved to tech-userlevel@ ... - Hubert -- NetBSD - Free AND Open! (And of course secure, portable, yadda yadda)