Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:15:11 +0300 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: Sagara Wijetunga <sagara@tomahawk.com.sg> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: malformed man pages Message-ID: <88077680@bb.ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <4B18CD57.5090108@tomahawk.com.sg> (Sagara Wijetunga's message of "Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:31 %2B0800") References: <4B18CD57.5090108@tomahawk.com.sg>
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Hi, On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:31 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based > distro) that all man pages malformed. What is the base FreeBSD version? > Eg. man tar shows as follows: > 1mNAME0m > 1mtar 22m-- format of tape archive files > 1mDESCRIPTION0m > The 1mtar 22marchive format collects any number of files, > directories, and What are your terminal, locale, fonts? > What have we missed? Well, there were good old days ;-) when the grass was green and manual pages were written in plain ASCII. Those days passed, welcome to the shiny future. Manual pages have colors, belts and whistles and can be viewed only at xterm and with some fonts. *sign* bsam, who used a copy-n-paste from DISKLESS(8) and lost nfs connectivity. -- WBR, Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD Committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve
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