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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Subject: Re: Where is nroff?? (plus compiler question)
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
- References: <97498@netnews.upenn.edu> <1992Nov13.173512.28632@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 21:34:42 GMT
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- In <1992Nov13.173512.28632@news.acns.nwu.edu> gof@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Gerald Fountain) writes:
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- | I have just finished setting up three new Indigo R4K's and noticed there is no
- | nroff on the disk. According to 'man man', nroff(1) is to be used for local
- | man pages. Seems odd that they would suggest to use something that was not on
- | the distribution disks!
-
- It is part of the dwb product. The man page is not 'suggesting that you
- use it'; it is mentioning it, since man will emit error messages about
- it when it isn't found.
-
- | On an unrelated note, what machines are effected by the -mips1 and -mips2
- | flags? What are the benefits?
-
- Only the r4k machines (from sgi; it applies to r6k MIPS machines
- as well, from what I remember) can run binaries built with -mips2.
-
- You get some tuned routines in the libs in /usr/lib/mips2, and you
- get true sd/ld (floating point only) 64 bit loads and stores, which
- can help if there is a lot of memory traffic on doubles.
- --
- Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
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