On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:53:49AM -0300, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Andy Farkas wrote: > > > >Arrghh. Why you not believe me when I have proved the user experience is > >different between 4.x and 5.x ????? > > He isn't denying that. He's just claiming these 10 seconds are not a > result of the man page being catpaged. > Right. > I do have a question... on these examples, does the cat page exist or > not, for each? > It does not. If it exists and is up-to-date, it's just uncompressed (if it's compressed) and displayed. > And what happens in the other case (ie, if the cat page > does not exist in these examples, what happens when it does exist)? > If the catpage does not exist, it's either created (if the user has the write permission to the cat* directory) or the raw manpage gets formatted, and the output is piped to the PAGER. Piped, not ";"ed, hence no message. If we are to add the message, it should be "Formatting and displaying the page, please wait..." which is silly (IMO). -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru_at_sunbay.com Sunbay Software AG, ru_at_FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer, +380.652.512.251 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age
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