man(1) oddity - was: HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages...

[Andy Farkas]

> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1)
> > support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has
> > it), and then switch the default compression method from
> > gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs.
> > (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.)

As a normal user, the "Formatting page, please wait..." message never
appears, whereas it does for root.

IMHO this is a mild POLA violation.

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        Andy Farkas
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