On 25.10.2020 02:35, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > 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. > I bet that cat(1) is always faster, but I consider myself as the only regular (at all?) user of these pages at least since since 6.x and nobody caring. > Thor >
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