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

[Ruslan Ermilov]

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).

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