On Mar 31, 2012 5:02 AM, "Jim Bryant" <kc5vdj.freebsd<[email protected]> @ <[email protected]>gmail.com <[email protected]>> wrote: > > Matt Thyer wrote: > >> >> On Mar 29, 2012 5:18 AM, "Jim Bryant" >> <kc5vdj.freebsd<[email protected]> @ <[email protected]>gmail.com <[email protected]> <mailto: kc5vdj.freebsd <[email protected]>@ <[email protected]> gmail.com <[email protected]>>> wrote: >> > >> > Ever since I have upgraded to 9-stable, I have noticed that the manpages seem to be munged up with displayed instead of processed ESCape codes. >> >> I believe that this is due to the terminal type of the console changing from "cons25" to "xterm". If you fix your /etc/ttys to reflect this things should be OK. >> > 1:27:57pm argus(19): tty > /dev/pts/7 > 1:28:03pm argus(20): setenv TERM xterm > 1:28:05pm argus(21): man man > > MAN(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual MAN(1) > > ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m > ESC[1mman ESC[22m-- display online manual documentation pages > > same thing going on. that's after switching every vty and the console to xterm in /etc/ttys as well. > > i'm kinda lost on this one. i have determined that somehow, it's the pager... hang on a sec... lemme try vi. > > vi seems to be working properly... it's not the termcap/terminfo... the only thing causing this seems to be more and less, both. > > when i pipe man into cat, everything gets properly interpreted by the tty/vty/pty, when i use the pager, i get this crap....argh.. > Some suggestions:
Test with a clean environment (most easily done by creating a new user account). If that doesn't fix it then you have a problem with your upgrade that may be fixed by mergemaster. You may need to back up your data and do a clean install. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
