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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: man pages on FreeBSD
Date: 6 May 1995 06:26:54 GMT
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Richard C. Gaine (rgaine@pilot.njin.net) wrote:

: Why does it take so long for man pages to come up under FreeBSD?

they have to be formatted everytime you use them - use the catman program to
format them all - then it will go faster - hope this helps - t 

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