Subject: man links: hard/symbolic
To: None <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 04/23/1999 15:31:07
So it seems that the man pages in the sets use hard links, not symbolic
links, to link man pages that share text. This has a big drawback: it
makes compressing the shipped man pages nearly impossible without *lots* of
funny work.
I'd like to propose a switch to symlinks by default, possibly for 1.4 but
I'm not holding my breath on that.
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-- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)