shell script implementation of man

Cathey, Jim jcathey at ciena.com
Mon Nov 24 17:41:02 UTC 2008


>The other thing I wanted to mention was the possibility of extending 
>this little man script, or creating an alternate, so that it could look

>up man pages from a single file to prevent a whole 1kb, 2kb, 4kb or w/e

>sized inode from being used to hold a single 200 byte compressed ascii 
>man page. Does this sound like a good idea?

Sounds like a job for "ar".  It's good for more than just
libraries of .o's!  (Or it used to be.)

-- Jim







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