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From: david@sun.uucp (David DiGiacomo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: manuals
Message-ID: <26569@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 26-Aug-87 12:57:10 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 26 12:57:10 1987
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In article <742@ssc.UUCP> fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes:
>>	Seeing as Xenix does not come with on-line manuals, does anyone
>>know of a vender whom might provide them?
>
>I hate to toot my own horn but my experience with on-line manuals is that
>they are very slow.  On an IBM AT with a reasonable number of users I would
>spell this slooooow.

That's only because you didn't save pre-nroffed man pages in /usr/man/cat*.
(The Xenix man may not even support this, but it's easy to do with a shell
script.)  If "more -s /usr/man/cat1/cat.1" is slooooow, why bother using
the system?