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From: smcarey@rodan.syr.edu (Shawn M Carey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: compressed man pages
Date: 3 Oct 1994 13:17:41 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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Message-ID: <36p09l$57h@newstand.syr.edu>
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Keywords: FreeBSD, UNIX

In article <36nu2n$rae@gondor.sdsu.edu> mbranch@mike@meson.sdsu.edu (Michael A. Branch) writes:
>hi,
>  I installed compressed man pages under FreeBSD-1.1.5.1 ... 
>the man command works fine under all conditions (compressed
>or uncompressed), however, xman only works for uncompressed
>man pages.  Is there a fix?  I rebuilt X with the compressed
>man pages enabled in site.def ... still no luck.
>

I know there's an xman binary at

freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD/packages-1.1 

which works with compressed man pages.  Don't know where the source is
tho.

>thanks,
>
>-- 
>Michael A. Branch, BSChE, BSNE
>mbranch@swordfish.eecs.berkeley.edu
>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>


-Shawn Carey