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Date:      Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:53:18 +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:  <54145809@bb.ipt.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4B191681.8050507@tomahawk.com.sg> (Sagara Wijetunga's message of "Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:02:41 %2B0800")
References:  <4B18CD57.5090108@tomahawk.com.sg> <88077680@bb.ipt.ru> <4B191681.8050507@tomahawk.com.sg>

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On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:02:41 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > 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?
> FreeBSD 7.2

OK.

> >> 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?
> >   
> echo $TERM xterm-color

OK.

> How do I know what locale and fonts are effective?

% locale

I don't remember how to detect current font, but I know how to
set it up. ;-) I use x11-fonts/dejavu and set it at ~/XTerm:
-----
XTerm*faceName: DejaVu Sans Mono
XTerm*faceSize: 12
-----

-- 
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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