Subject: New Upload: man-preformatter-1.0.tar.gz Man Page Preformatter
From: [email-masked] (Nick Kralevich)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 1994 19:06:32 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

I have uploaded the following to sunsite.unc.edu in 
/pub/Linux/incoming.  It should eventually be placed in 
/pub/Linux/system/Manual_pagers.

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Title:   	man page preformatter          
Version: 	1.0
Entered-date:	08/28/94
Description: 	This is version 1.0 of preformat, a program to automate the
		installation of preformatted man pages.  It is different than
		other programs in that it can detect "hard links" in the 
		original man pages, and produce a symbolic link to the 
		appropriate compressed man page file, resulting in a 
		significant savings in disk space.
		This disk savings can be enormous.  I was able to reduce
		the disk useage of man-pages-1.3 from 947K to 472K, a
		savings of %51.  Also, preformatted man pages have the
		advantage that they load quicker than regular man pages.
Keywords:  	man pages preformatted compressed 
Author:   	[email-masked] (Nick Kralevich)         
Maintained-by:	[email-masked] (Nick Kralevich)
Primary-site: 	sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/system/Manual-pagers
		11kB man-preformatter-1.0.tar.gz 
		1kB  man-preformatter-1.0.lsm
Alternate-site:	
Original-site:  
Platform: 	Unix based.  The program should work on any UNIX 
		platform that supports compressed man pages, although
		it was tested and designed on a Linux based operating
		system.  gnroff, gzip, and awk are required.  less
		is optional.
Copying-policy:	GPL
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Nick Kralevich                        [email-masked]
"A man sits with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems shorter than 
a minute.  But tell that same man to sit on a hot stove for a minute, 
it is longer than any hour.  That's relativity."  -- Einstein

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