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  • From: Jason Flatt <jasonflatt AT wizard.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Man page formatting
  • Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 10:23:34 -0700

On Thursday 01 August 2002 03:33 am, Robin wrote:
> I still get my man pages looking something like:
> ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
> locate - list files in databases that match a pattern
>
> ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
> ESC[1mlocate ESC[22m[-d path] [--database=path] [--version] [--help]
> pattern...
>
> Is this a groff problem?


I had this for a brief period last week. After doing an update, the problem
went away. IIRC, there were some version changes for groff -- one of them
backward.


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