Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:02:41 +0800 From: Sagara Wijetunga <sagara@tomahawk.com.sg> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> Subject: Re: malformed man pages Message-ID: <4B191681.8050507@tomahawk.com.sg> In-Reply-To: <88077680@bb.ipt.ru> References: <4B18CD57.5090108@tomahawk.com.sg> <88077680@bb.ipt.ru>
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Boris Samorodov wrote: > 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? > > FreeBSD 7.2 >> 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 How do I know what locale and fonts are effective? Our "default" in /etc/login.conf is same as FreeBSD's. >> 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. > > Regards Sagara
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