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  • From: bluebird AT optushome.com.au
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Man page formatting
  • Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 06:03:17 +1000

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:23:34AM -0700, Jason Flatt
wrote:

> 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.
>

The lastest version of groff is back in the devel
grimoire, the problems with the display of man pages
was caused by less & the man program. less, by default,
doesn't display escape formated colour codes, the groff &
and man spell now edits man.conf and changes the options
less is called with to work around this problem.

Cheers

Joel
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