On Mon, 19 May 2003, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 09:26:26PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: > > > > Here is a table of what I *really* see: > > > > FreeBSD-4.8: > > | no catpage | catpage > > Normal user | fmt msg, waits | no msg, no wait > > Super user | fmt msg, waits | no msg, no wait > > > > FreeBSD-5.1-B: > > > > Normal user | no msg, waits | no msg, no wait > > Super user | fmt msg, waits | no msg, no wait > > > > > > The difference is Normal user. > > > This example is wrong. With your example you're timing the > formatting of the whole manpage, and I'm telling you that > normal man(1) invocation (with PAGER) will start showing you > something on your terminal much sooner. No, thats what I *really* *see* without redirection or anything. Plain old `man ppp` command. I only used the `> /dev/null` example because the same thing is experienced by the user. Please boot up 5.1-B on a slow box and type 'man ppp'. You'll see what I mean then. -- :{ andyf_at_speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/Received on Mon May 19 2003 - 02:38:23 UTC
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