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- From: sjg
- Date: Thu, 04 Aug 94 12:09:19 +0100
- X-Mts: smtp
-
- >
- > Lots of questions:
-
- A couple of answers :-)
-
- > What are the advantages of screen? Why should I use it? I know its
- > a matter of personal preference, but so far I've found myself using most
- > of Unix stuff that the list has found useful. Never thought I'd
- > admit it, but Unix utils are useful :-)
-
- Screen is similar to Juergens virtual consoles. I don't know which is the
- faster, but the vcons1d really screams on hardware-assisted scrolling
- machines :-)
-
- > vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
- > Workable Formatter, found on a.a.u.e.) to format manpages. Moreover, the
- > unformatted page is required for the whatis database.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- > Is there a way to compress/uncompress this stuff on the fly? Many
- > multiple levels deep? Maybe tar it so all the man pages can be in
- > one file? Disk space is limiting. With DataLite or whatever (not
- > Data-Diet, the other one that works at the BIOS level) work with
- > MiNT on a Minix parition .. sort of a Minix-Stacker?
-
- My manual paging suite is now available for ftp at
- phl[ei]m.ph.kcl.ac.uk:/pub/MiNT/mans/*
-
- It copes with compressed man and cat pages, calls apropos when invoked with
- the -k option and it comes with a simple-minded mkwhatis (needs to be run
- from the /usr/man directory) which will generate the whatis database from
- the compressed man pages.
-
- Now a compressed filesystem would be a neat idea :-)))))))) So long as we had
- a compressed fsck as well :-)))))))))
-
- ATB,
- Simon
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-