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Re: Sun speeds

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From: Bo Thide'
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 20:18
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In article <EMCGUIRE.92Nov8231522@fuller.intellection.com> emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes:
>In article <1992Nov7.062225.20948@netcom.com> wolfgang@netcom.com (Wolfgang Henke) writes:
>   If you have previously run catman, you must rename or delete the formatted
>   pages in /usr/man/cat1/csh.1 before the testing or use
>
>   time nroff -man /usr/share/man1/csh.1 > /dev/null
>
>   Someone pointed out that 'time man csh' tends to be a bit slower 
>   than 'time nroff', so please use these numbers with caution.  
>
>Note also that some vendors tend to modify man pages.  If you're going
>to use the csh(1) man page as a test, perhaps it would be best to copy
>the source file from system to system.
>-- 
>Ed McGuire                   1603 LBJ Freeway, Suite 780
>Systems Administrator/       Dallas, Texas 75234
> Member of Technical Staff   214/620-2100, FAX 214/484-8110
>Intellection, Inc.           <ed@intellection.com>


Also, different vendors have different nroff implementations.  For a fair
comparison one should use a standard nroff (groff?).

Bo
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From: bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide')
Subject: Re: Sun speeds
Message-ID: <1992Nov9.201836.23779@irfu.se>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:18:36 GMT
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