Re: Removal of catman from base

From: Gordon Tetlow <gordon_at_tetlows.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 11:55:32 -0700
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:50:22PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <20170912184200.GD99742_at_gmail.com>, Gordon Tetlow writes:
> 
> >With modern hardware, it doesn't seem to be necessary to have pre-formatted
> >man pages as rendering them is short enough to not be noticeable.
> 
> That was actually not why catman was brought into the world:  ATT/USL
> thought text-processing was The Goods so they unbundled it base SVR
> and invented catman to make up for the missing nroff.

Okay, that seems reasonable. I don't think it changes the desire to
remove it (unless I'm missing something).

Gordon
Received on Tue Sep 12 2017 - 16:55:35 UTC

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