man of man!

[EML]

I was looking at the man pages of man and I saw the -k option. It was telling me of the whatis database. If I do the catman to create this, how much more diskspace would it probably consume?

[Ravi_8]

hi,
in aix it takes nearly 800 mb , i don't know in hp-ux

[Alistair Scott_2]

# ll /usr/share/lib/whatis
-rw-r--r-- 1 root sys 216859 Nov 12 1998 /usr/share/lib/whatis

Here is the size of my index file created with catman -w

[Joseph C. Denman]

I would say, 200 to 300MB. If you have the space, the -k option can be very helpful.

...jcd...

[Thierry Poels_1]

uh?? 800MB? 200-300MB??

How about 200-300 "K"B?
(see post of Alistair for an exact example)

The whatis file contains only one header line per man page found (based on your $MANPATH variable). So for 6000 manpages * 80 chars/line you would still need less than half a megabyte!

regards,
Thierry.