Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:32:19 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Sagara Wijetunga <sagara@tomahawk.com.sg> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: malformed man pages Message-ID: <20091204193219.GA84026@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <4B18CD57.5090108@tomahawk.com.sg> References: <4B18CD57.5090108@tomahawk.com.sg>
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In the last episode (Dec 04), Sagara Wijetunga said: > Hi FreeBSD community > > We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) > that all man pages malformed. > > 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 That looks sort of like malformed ANSI escape codes (bold would be "ESC [ 1 m", but the man utilities shouldn't be generating those. If you run "man 5 tar | hd | head", what do you get? I get this: 00000000 54 41 52 28 35 29 09 09 09 20 20 46 72 65 65 42 |TAR(5)... FreeB| 00000010 53 44 20 46 69 6c 65 20 46 6f 72 6d 61 74 73 20 |SD File Formats | 00000020 4d 61 6e 75 61 6c 09 09 09 54 41 52 28 35 29 0a |Manual...TAR(5).| 00000030 0a 4e 08 4e 41 08 41 4d 08 4d 45 08 45 0a 20 20 |.N.NA.AM.ME.E. | 00000040 20 20 20 74 08 74 61 08 61 72 08 72 20 2d 2d 20 | t.ta.ar.r -- | 00000050 66 6f 72 6d 61 74 20 6f 66 20 74 61 70 65 20 61 |format of tape a| 00000060 72 63 68 69 76 65 20 66 69 6c 65 73 0a 0a 44 08 |rchive files..D.| 00000070 44 45 08 45 53 08 53 43 08 43 52 08 52 49 08 49 |DE.ES.SC.CR.RI.I| 00000080 50 08 50 54 08 54 49 08 49 4f 08 4f 4e 08 4e 0a |P.PT.TI.IO.ON.N.| 00000090 20 20 20 20 20 54 68 65 20 74 08 74 61 08 61 72 | The t.ta.ar| The doubled letters are handled by /usr/bin/less and converted to bold before displaying. If you get the same hd output as I have above, then we know that the manpage is fine, and your problem is in /usr/bin/less or your terminal type is incorrect. If you see ANSI escape codes in the hd output, then we know the problem is with the manpage tools. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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