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From: steven@luke.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Compressing man pages
Message-ID: <193@luke.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Jun-85 00:48:10 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  8 00:48:10 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Jun-85 03:56:57 EDT
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Reply-To: steven@luke.UUCP (Steven List)
Organization: Benetics Corp, Mt.View, CA
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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.
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