Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!stat!stat.fsu.edu!mccalpin From: mccalpin@masig3.masig3.ocean.fsu.edu (John D. McCalpin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: waiting for `man'........ Message-ID: Date: 30 Oct 89 17:30:43 GMT Sender: news@stat.fsu.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Supercomputer Computations Research Institute Lines: 17 Has anyone put together a replacement for the `man' command on the 4D machines? Every time I try to use it, I am amazed that a machine costing so much money can do something sooooo slowly! :-) Seriously, the `man' program is *much* too slow to be useful for online reference, and there has to be some reasonable way to replace it. Has anyone done this? The one (and only) thing that I liked about the Apollo DN10000 was that when you typed `man csh', it opened a window already filled with the first page of text in about 1 second. Going back to the SGI machine (even a 4D/240) was very painful.... -- John D. McCalpin - mccalpin@masig1.ocean.fsu.edu mccalpin@scri1.scri.fsu.edu mccalpin@delocn.udel.edu