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From: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Need information on fixes in current release of Xenix.
Message-ID: <1722@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 17 Apr 88 22:13:55 GMT
References: <217@oha.UUCP> <659@omen.UUCP> <3@ispi.UUCP>
Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne)
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Organization: Public Access Network, Vancouver, BC.
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In article <3@ispi.UUCP> root@+++.UUCP (Super user) writes:
>In article <659@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
>>In article <217@oha.UUCP> tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy) writes:
>>:I am currently running SCO Xenix System V release 2.1.3 on 286 ATs.  I have
>	.
>	.
>>:  * Is the on-line manual available yet?
>
>The on-line manual is now available from SCO as part of the update to
>the Text-Processing System.  It includes an intelligent "man" program
>which looks up in an index the request, and tells you about any other
>pages which might be relevent.  It is stored in packed format so it only
>takes up about 1.25 meg of disk space.  

Yuk! They use pack/unpack! And the man command is binary. It's to bad SCO
doesn't know about compress.

pack is slower than compress, and much less efficent than compress. On
other System V based systems I've just had to edit the man script to add a
test for .Z as well as .z; and unpack then compress the files to save even
more space.

I just unpacked cat.C the largest directory under /usr/man. It went from
1174 blocks to 1774 blocks. Given that this is formatted text, compress
would probably average well over 50% which would save us about 300 more
blocks. 

I'll re-post after I get compress moved over.

Perhaps SCO should follow Apple's lead and start shipping some of the better
public domain software. Personally I don't know how anyone could even
contemplate running a small Unix system without compress/elm/smail.

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