Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 08:07:00 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com> To: Rob <freebsd-questions@rl.id.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: manual page formatting issues Message-ID: <20110205050527.GA1530@darklight.org.ru> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinVytULhz3_W2Shs2rscGTrfRTAGXXSCeoTV6s5@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTinVytULhz3_W2Shs2rscGTrfRTAGXXSCeoTV6s5@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 02:24:31PM +1000, Rob wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (running on VMWare Server 2.0.2) and am > having some odd issues the formatting of man pages. > > If I view a man page (as root) in the console it displays correctly. If I > view the man page (again, as root) in a (PuTTY) terminal session, the bold > formatting of the command line arguments is missing. > > See the following screen shot examples: > > Console: http://imageupload.org/?di=612968791464 > > Terminal: http://imageupload.org/?di=112968791464 > > In the console session I have the TERM=cons25. > > In the terminal session I have it set to TERM=xterm. My PuTTY settings are > pretty much the default, including the "Connection->Data->Terminal-type > string" set to xterm. > > The pager in both sessions is set to more. > > I've played around with various terminal settings, to no avail. Can someone > please offer some pointers as to how I might fix this? > > Thanks, > Rob You probably forgot to change Window->Colors->Default Bold Foreground color values in PuTTY (works just fine here). HTH, Yuri
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