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- From: bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide')
- Subject: Re: Sun speeds
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.201836.23779@irfu.se>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:18:36 GMT
- References: <1992Nov03.141029.14861@einoed.in-berlin.de> <1992Nov7.062225.20948@netcom.com> <EMCGUIRE.92Nov8231522@fuller.intellection.com>
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden
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- In article <EMCGUIRE.92Nov8231522@fuller.intellection.com> emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov7.062225.20948@netcom.com> wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke) writes:
- > If you have previously run catman, you must rename or delete the formatted
- > pages in /usr/man/cat1/csh.1 before the testing or use
- >
- > time nroff -man /usr/share/man1/csh.1 > /dev/null
- >
- > Someone pointed out that 'time man csh' tends to be a bit slower
- > than 'time nroff', so please use these numbers with caution.
- >
- >Note also that some vendors tend to modify man pages. If you're going
- >to use the csh(1) man page as a test, perhaps it would be best to copy
- >the source file from system to system.
- >--
- >Ed McGuire 1603 LBJ Freeway, Suite 780
- >Systems Administrator/ Dallas, Texas 75234
- > Member of Technical Staff 214/620-2100, FAX 214/484-8110
- >Intellection, Inc. <ed@intellection.com>
-
-
- Also, different vendors have different nroff implementations. For a fair
- comparison one should use a standard nroff (groff?).
-
- Bo
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