omsi@reed.UUCP (OMSI) (06/05/85)
Anyone consider keeping man and cat pages in compressed form? As they hog about 6 Meg or more on most systems, an additional 2-3 meg free might be very welcome by many. Seems like it might take a little bit of an effort but be well worth it for small systems. Anyway, just a thought. Bob Ankeney tektronix!reed!omsi
steven@luke.UUCP (06/08/85)
In article <1607@reed.UUCP> omsi@reed.UUCP (OMSI) writes: >Anyone consider keeping man and cat pages in compressed form? As they hog about >6 Meg or more on most systems, an additional 2-3 meg free might be very welcome >by many. Seems like it might take a little bit of an effort but be well worth >it for small systems. Anyway, just a thought. > > Bob Ankeney tektronix!reed!omsi I think this is an excellent suggestion! I wish I had thought of it first. We normally remove all of the online manual, due to space constraints. However by compressing or `pack'ing that stuff, it would be available. It might then be easy enough to pcat or uncompress it or something through nroff. Thanks for the suggestion Bob - if we do anything about it, I'll let you know. -- *** * Steven List @ Benetics Corporation * (415) 940-6300 * {cdp,greipa,idi,oliveb,sun,tolerant}!bene!luke!steven ***