svn commit: r194493 - head/usr.bin/catman

Brooks Davis brooks at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jun 21 17:32:56 UTC 2009


On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 04:48:09PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > This kinda brings up the question, do we actually need catman(1) at all
> > these days of fast CPU and disks and plenty of RAM?
> 
> Show me the fast CPU and plenty of RAM on this board:
> 
> http://www.soekris.com/net4801.htm

For such hardware, the OpenBSD mdoc renderer is likely to be a better
fit anyway.  It's orders of magnitude faster than *roff and wouldn't
waste space on catpages that will in all likely hood never be used.

-- Brooks
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