Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:16:04 +0800 From: Sagara Wijetunga <sagara@tomahawk.com.sg> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: malformed man pages Message-ID: <4B19EC94.8040901@tomahawk.com.sg> In-Reply-To: <20091204193219.GA84026@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4B18CD57.5090108@tomahawk.com.sg> <20091204193219.GA84026@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. > > Here is what I get: man 5 tar | hd | head /usr/share/groff/1.20.1/tmac/doc.tmac:3375: bad character definition 00000000 54 41 52 28 35 29 09 09 09 20 20 20 20 42 53 44 |TAR(5)... BSD| 00000010 20 46 69 6c 65 20 46 6f 72 6d 61 74 73 20 4d 61 | File Formats Ma| 00000020 6e 75 61 6c 09 09 09 54 41 52 28 35 29 0a 0a 31 |nual...TAR(5)..1| 00000030 6d 4e 41 4d 45 30 6d 0a 20 20 20 20 20 31 6d 74 |mNAME0m. 1mt| 00000040 61 72 20 32 32 6d 2d 2d 20 66 6f 72 6d 61 74 20 |ar 22m-- format | 00000050 6f 66 20 74 61 70 65 20 61 72 63 68 69 76 65 20 |of tape archive | 00000060 66 69 6c 65 73 0a 0a 31 6d 44 45 53 43 52 49 50 |files..1mDESCRIP| 00000070 54 49 4f 4e 30 6d 0a 20 20 20 20 20 54 68 65 20 |TION0m. The | 00000080 31 6d 74 61 72 20 32 32 6d 61 72 63 68 69 76 65 |1mtar 22marchive| 00000090 20 66 6f 72 6d 61 74 20 63 6f 6c 6c 65 63 74 73 | format collects| Error executing formatting or display command. system command exited with status 36096 No entry for tar in section 5 of the manual We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so, is there such a patch exist? Regards Sagara
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