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On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:20:44AM -0400, Michael George wrote: |
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> I noticed today that my man pages aren't displaying correctly. Whenever |
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> I view one, I see the ESC codes rather than seeing bold fonts, etc. |
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> I don't remeber when I last used man and it displayed correctly, but I |
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> can check back 2 weeks this evening. |
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> I have tried several terminals (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole) and all |
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> have the problem. |
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> Would this be a tercap problem? Unicode issue, perhaps? |
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It was /etc/man-conf. A change in the NROFF definition caused the |
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problem. Running dispatch-conf didn't prompt me for the config change, |
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so I ran etc-update this time and found it. |
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Hopefully this will be helpful for someone. |
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-M |
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There are 10 kinds of people in this world: |
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Those who can count in binary and those who cannot. |
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