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- From: mbeckman@mbeckman.mbeckman.com (Mel Beckman)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: Is a CD-ROM fast enough for Info?
- Message-ID: <01050810.c73ivg@mbeckman.mbeckman.com>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 16:03:43 GMT
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- Organization: Beckman Software Engineering
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- In article <714971429@macbeth.cs.duke.edu> (comp.unix.aix), hsg@duke.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside) writes:
- > What I would like to know is whether a CD-ROM is fast
- > enough to provide a reasonably responsive way of using
- > Info. Have people found this to be the case?
- >
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- I find it fast enough for graphically-based info (although it helps if you
- launch info right away after booting and leave it running). It's not instantaneous,
- though, and you get considerably better response time with it disk-resident
- (at a cost of about 50MB). However, if you use the man-page feature of info
- (type 'man aixterm' for example), as I want to do for quick text-only reference,
- you can end up waiting as long a five minutes to get a response! This is
- because InfoExplorer linearly searches the formatted database and extracts
- raw text, then converts that to troff.
-
- So I've extracted my man pages to disk, but use the graphic database off
- the CD when I need it. The procedure is somewhat documented in /usr/lpp/bos/bsdadm,
- but that has errors in it. I'll be uploading a complete corrected procedure
- to this forum soon.
-
- So I think the best solution, and a reasonable one from a disk space perspective,
- is to use the CD, but have the relatively modestly sized (10MB) text extracts
- on your HD for instant access via man, apropos, whatis, etc.
-
- -mel
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