Re: Proposal to drop MKCATPAGES

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 02:13:47AM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
> 
> I recall catpages to used in 80286 UNIX (Coherent) and the catpages are
> probably just applicable for such constrained environments that cannot
> host any text formatters.

The issue was the speed of the text formatters.  I vividly recall on
the 11/750 waiting multiple seconds for nroff to chew through man
pages before I could read them.

Of course groff's even slower, but mandoc is faster -- than groff, at
least, dunno about heritage nroff.  Is there a noticeable delay with
mandoc even on our slowest supported hardware?  It might very well be
fine.

Thor