[TriLUG] Man

[Andrew Perrin]

I'd assume it just unzips to STDOUT, then to the pager, along the lines
of:

gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz | nroff -man | less

ap

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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Jeff Bollinger wrote:

> Just a quick question to satisfy my curiosity.  Sometimes when you 
> search for a binary you will also get the associated man pages (on my 
> box /usr/share/man/).  It looks to me like all the man pages are 
> *.gzipped.  Whenever you view a man page, does it unzip, display, and 
> then re-zip after you view it?
> 
> Jeff
> -- 
> Jeff Bollinger
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