Subject: Consensus is for compressed manpages

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 96 22:35 BST

Further to this discussion, I'm going to write into the policy manual
that manpages should be installed compressed using gzip -9.

Ian.

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From: [email-masked] (Bruce Perens)
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 96 22:21 PDT

From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
> that manpages should be installed compressed using gzip -9.

Good. I said it was OK to start doing it a while back, but I never said
_everyone_ should do it, and no doubt I should have said that some time ago.

	Thanks

	Bruce