Re: Proposal to remove catman(8)

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

I just discovered another reason I would like to keep catpages, or at
the very least support for them if the admin cares to enable it.

I was on a 9.1 system (for work, not that that matters to my point)
booted single-user.  And look:

# man installboot
man: Formatting manual page...
man: /tmp/man.4oCSiZ: Read-only file system
# 

Perhaps this is fixable; in theory it certainly is - feeding the source
to nroff -mandoc and piping the output to less -s works - but if that's
an excuse, then, the very least, man(1) should be taught to do that.

And, of course, when you're up single-user is, generally, when you're
least able to bring other tools to bear or the like, and when you're
possibly most likely need to know how to use a command you don't use
enough to have memorized.  Fortunately, in this case I wasn't trying to
recover a half-crashed system; nroff | less actually did work.

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