[wplug] updated groff and now man pages are corrupted...

Vanco, Donald VANCOD at PIOS.com
Fri Mar 7 09:55:48 EST 2003


Did you upgrade (or change) anything else that might have affected your
terminal emulation??  That's what it looks like at first glance.
YMMV
Don

Juan Zuluaga wrote:
> (I am running Slackware 7.1)
> I upgraded to groff 1.18.1 and now some pages (not
> all) appear like
> 
> LESS(1)
>                 LESS(1)
> 
> ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
>        less - opposite of more
> 
> ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
>        ESC[1mless -?ESC[0m
>        ESC[1mless --helpESC[0m
>        ESC[1mless -VESC[0m
>        ESC[1mless --versionESC[0m
>        ESC[1mless
> [-[+]aBcCdeEfgGiImMnNqQrsSuUVwX]ESC[0m
>             ESC[1m[-b ESC[4mESC[22mbufsESC[24mESC[1m] [-h
> ESC[4mESC[22mlinesESC[ 24mESC[1m] [-j ESC[4mESC[22mlineESC[24mESC[1m]
> [-k ESC[4mESC[22mkeyfileESC[24m
> ESC[1m]ESC[0m
>             ESC[1m[-{oO}
> ESC[4mESC[22mlogfileESC[24mESC[1m] [-p
> ESC[4mESC[22mpat
> ternESC[24mESC[1m] [-P
> ESC[4mESC[22mpromptESC[24mESC[1m] [-t
> ESC[4mESC[22mtagESC
> [24mESC[1m]ESC[0m
>             ESC[1m[-T
> ESC[4mESC[22mtagsfileESC[24mESC[1m] [-x
> ESC[4mESC[22mtab
> ESC[24mESC[1m] [-y ESC[4mESC[22mlinesESC[24mESC[1m] [-[z]
> ESC[4mESC[22mlinesESC[ 24mESC[1m]ESC[0m
>             ESC[1m[+[+]ESC[4mESC[22mcmdESC[24mESC[1m] [--]
> [ESC[4mESC[22mfilenam eESC[24mESC[1m]...ESC[0m
>        (See  the  OPTIONS section for alternate option syntax with
> long option 
> 
> 
> my .bash_profile is
> 
> export LESSCHARSET=latin1
> export LC_CTYPE=iso-8859-1
> export PATH=$PATH:/home/juan/bin
> 
> How can I correct that? (I would not like to go back
> to 1.17 ; there seem to be some nice goodies in
> groff1.18).
> 
> 
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