Hi,
> On 12 Sep 2017, at 22:20, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>
> In message , Lyndon Nerenberg
> writes:
>>> That was actually not why catman was brought into the world: ATT/USL
>>> thought text-processing was The Goods so they unbundled it base SVR
>>> and invented catman to make up fo
In message
, Warner
Losh writes:
>Back in school, our SunOS 3, SunOS 4 and VAX running BSD 4.{2,3} we had to
>run a special ditroff [...]
ditroff = Device Independent Troff
The original troff were hardwired to the C/A/T photo-typesetter which
by the time of SVR bare existed in the mar
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 4:48 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> I'm pretty sure that SVR1 had catman and roff was an extra and somewhat
>> pricey software package.
>>
>
> The SVR1 (and 2) systems I had access to were all CTIX, and it shipped
> with nro
On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
I'm pretty sure that SVR1 had catman and roff was an extra and somewhat
pricey software package.
The SVR1 (and 2) systems I had access to were all CTIX, and it shipped
with nroff/troff. And the 3B4000 & 3B2s I used later (SVR2 and later)
also ha
In message , Lyndon Nerenberg
writes:
>> That was actually not why catman was brought into the world: ATT/USL
>> thought text-processing was The Goods so they unbundled it base SVR
>> and invented catman to make up for the missing nroff.
>
>Not quite. They (AT&T) sold the rights to sell
That was actually not why catman was brought into the world: ATT/USL
thought text-processing was The Goods so they unbundled it base SVR
and invented catman to make up for the missing nroff.
Not quite. They (AT&T) sold the rights to sell typeset manuals to some
publishing house (I forget whic
In message <20170912184200.gd99...@gmail.com>, Gordon Tetlow writes:
>With modern hardware, it doesn't seem to be necessary to have pre-formatted
>man pages as rendering them is short enough to not be noticeable.
That was actually not why catman was brought into the world: ATT/USL
thoug
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 06:50:22PM +, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> In message <20170912184200.gd99...@gmail.com>, Gordon Tetlow writes:
>
> >With modern hardware, it doesn't seem to be necessary to have pre-formatted
> >man pages as rendering them is short enough to not be noticeable.
On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:42:00AM -0700, Gordon Tetlow wrote:
> All,
>
> I wanted to announce my intention to remove the catman utility.
>
> For those that are unaware, this utility (disabled by default) is
> generally run out of a periodic job and causes the system to cache
> pre-formatted man
