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[sjg@phlem.ph.kcl.ac.uk]

> 
> Lots of questions:

A couple of answers :-)

> What are the advantages of screen?  Why should I use it?   I know its
> a matter of personal preference, but so far I've found myself using most
> of Unix stuff that the list has found useful.   Never thought I'd
> admit it, but Unix utils are useful :-)

Screen is similar to Juergens virtual consoles. I don't know which is the
faster, but the vcons1d really screams on hardware-assisted scrolling
machines :-)

> vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
> Workable Formatter, found on a.a.u.e.) to format manpages. Moreover, the
> unformatted page is required for the whatis database.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Is there a way to compress/uncompress this stuff on the fly?  Many
> multiple levels deep?   Maybe tar it so all the man pages can be in
> one file?   Disk space is limiting.  With DataLite or whatever (not
> Data-Diet, the other one that works at the BIOS level) work with
> MiNT on a Minix parition .. sort of a Minix-Stacker?

My manual paging suite is now available for ftp at
                  phl[ei]m.ph.kcl.ac.uk:/pub/MiNT/mans/*

It copes with compressed man and cat pages, calls apropos when invoked with
the -k option and it comes with a simple-minded mkwhatis (needs to be run
from the /usr/man directory) which will generate the whatis database from
the compressed man pages.

Now a compressed filesystem would be a neat idea :-)))))))) So long as we had
a compressed fsck as well :-)))))))))

ATB,
	Simon