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Bug 13976 - groff 1.18.1 bug -> problem viewing man pages
Summary: groff 1.18.1 bug -> problem viewing man pages
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: x86 All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED)
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: 14493 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-01-15 10:36 UTC by B. Binegar
Modified: 2003-07-25 16:47 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description B. Binegar 2003-01-15 10:36:10 UTC 
When one brings up a man page one gets all of these ugly ESC sequences.  E.g.,

*****************************************************************************
> man gcc:

GCC(1)                                GNU
GCC(1)

ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
       gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler

ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
       gcc [ESC[1m-cESC[22m|ESC[1m-SESC[22m|ESC[1m-EESC[22m]
[ESC[1m-std=ESC[4m
ESC[22mstandardESC[24m]


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This is supposed to be due to a bug in groff-1.18.1 that is fixed in
groff-1.18.2.  Supposedly troff-1.18.2 fixes this. However, troff-1.18.1
is the current gentoo version. 

A work-around is to set the PAGER environmental variable to 'less -R'.
Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-01-15 10:54:40 UTC 
try 

#emerge -u world --deep
Comment 2 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-01-17 12:46:12 UTC 
Actually this is fixed in man-1.5k-r1, which should be installed via PDEPEND
after groff ... check that you have it ?
Comment 3 Tim Oertel 2003-01-20 18:52:47 UTC 
I am able to reproduce the problem with man-1.5k-r1.  Another workaround is to set
PAGER=/bin/more
Comment 4 B. Binegar 2003-01-20 19:36:09 UTC 
I followed Martin Holzer's advice (BTW, Martin, thanks!) and did a
   emerge -u world --deep 
This resolved my problem with viewing man pages.
Comment 5 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-01-21 11:34:38 UTC 
Guess it could have been less not being updated ?
Comment 6 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-01-21 11:35:11 UTC 
BTW, dont seem like 1.18.2 is out yet.
Comment 7 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-01-24 12:14:16 UTC 
*** Bug 14493 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-07-25 16:47:55 UTC 
closing as fixed