On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 13:06 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
> > hmmm.. there is 21MB in /usr/share/man/cat* or so.  adding the html
> > versions seem like a waste of diskspace to me...
> 
> Depends on the platform. On a machine with a 300G hard drive, 21MB is
> totally ignorable. On an old Vax, it is a big problem.

What about keeping them in separated sets?  Say man.tgz, man-cat.tgz,
man-html.tgz...  After all, cat manual pages can be generated on the
fly (if text.tgz is installed, if I'm not wrong).

FWIW, FreeBSD has man and catman.

Cheers,

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