Package: bsdmainutils
Version: 6.0.17
Severity: normal
On my system 'ul' doesn't underline any text.
% echo hello | ul
hello # no underline.
...but the terminal can do it with 'echo':
% echo -e "\033[38mhello\033[39m"
hello # underlined nicely, but I can't show it in 7-bit ASCII.
The 'ul' man page says the 'TERM' variable plays a role:
% man ul | grep -A 4 -n "TERM var"
34: TERM The TERM variable is used to relate a tty device with its device
35- capability description (see termcap(5)). TERM is set at login
36- time, either by the default terminal type specified in
/etc/ttys or
37- as set during the login process by the user in their login file
38- (see environ(7)).
On my xterm TERM is:
%echo $TERM
xterm
...perhaps that's wrong? But the man page is vague as to what TERM
might or should be set to. It also recommends man pages such as
'termcap(5)', (which is Greek to me), and 'environ(7)' which unhelpfully
says:
% man environ | grep -n "terminal type"
46: TERM The terminal type for which output is to be prepared.
...less than 'man ul' said.
And so I'm unable to tell if:
1) my system is misconfigured. In which case 'man ul' should include
some common TERM examples for mixed-up users.
2) 'ul' is buggy.
If it matters, I've tried 'ul' (without success) from a console
(TERM=linux), 'gnome-terminal' and 'xterm', (TERM=xterm).
Hope this helps...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C)
Versions of packages bsdmainutils depends on:
ii bsdutils 1:2.12p-4 Basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.47 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.13.2 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
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bsdmainutils/calendar_lib_is_not_empty:
bsdmainutils/calendar_config_moved:
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