Compressing man pages

[steven at luke.UUCP]

In article <1607 at reed.UUCP> omsi at reed.UUCP (OMSI) writes:
>Anyone consider keeping man and cat pages in compressed form?  As they hog about
>6 Meg or more on most systems, an additional 2-3 meg free might be very welcome
>by many.  Seems like it might take a little bit of an effort but be well worth
>it for small systems.  Anyway, just a thought.
>
>	Bob Ankeney  tektronix!reed!omsi

I think this is an excellent suggestion!  I wish I had thought of it
first.  We normally remove all of the online manual, due to space
constraints.  However by compressing or `pack'ing that stuff, it would
be available.  It might then be easy enough to pcat or uncompress it or
something through nroff.

Thanks for the suggestion Bob - if we do anything about it, I'll let you
know.
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