On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:47:32AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Not sure I get what you mean but here is what is happening. > > I can do 'man man' and it displays fine on the screen ie no formating > > characters. I do recall it did display the control chars for a short > > time but that was a long time ago. > > > > If I do > > man man | a2ps -2 --catman > > or > > man man | a2ps > > or > > man man | lpr > > or > > man man | lp > > I used man 'man' as an example. It turns out it was a bad example as > the above commands print the man manpages correctly! > > Changing the 'man man' to 'man apt-file' would be a correct example.
I bet I know what's happened, then: you have some old cat pages in /var/cache/man that were cached with a groff that output the ANSI SGR escapes. Clean out everything in `find /var/cache/man -name cat\*` and try again. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
