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Re: [Groff] Unix Man Pages
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Doug Royer |
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Re: [Groff] Unix Man Pages |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Mar 2003 11:34:26 -0700 |
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I do not know of a cross platform way:
Some Unix's have 'catman'
Others:
Man will try to save the formatted man pages, in order to save format-
ting time the next time these pages are needed. Traditionally, format-
ted versions of pages in DIR/manX are saved in DIR/catX, but other map-
pings from man dir to cat dir can be specified in /usr/etc/man.config.
No cat pages are saved when the required cat directory does not exist.
No cat pages are saved when they are formatted for a line length dif-
ferent from 80. No cat pages are saved when man.conf contains the line
NOCACHE.
(and for some man.config is in /etc)
My man.config has (among other entries):
# NOCACHE keeps man from creating cache pages ("cat pages")
# (generally one enables/disable cat page creation by
# creating/deleting the directory they would live in - man
# never does mkdir)
#
#NOCACHE
J Robinson wrote:
Hello Eveyone,
...
Any tips on how to approach this in a *nix-independent
manner (while still retaining man page formatting) are
most welcome. Thanks in advance for any tips or leads.
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