Thanks, Keith. Old habits die hard -- I've used col -b with
man pages for so long that it never occurred to me to omit it.
However, I tried your command line and I now have ^[ characters
in the output in addition to the 0* control characters. I've
inserted the beginning of the formatted page at the end here
for your perusal...
meg
--- Keith MARSHALL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Meg McRoberts wrote:
> > Thanks, Jorgen, I had missed this -- I'm not technical enough
> > to recognize that these *m strings were SGR. However, I just
> > tried adding -c and -C to my groff line and I still have the
> > same thing. Here's my command line:
> >
> > groff -mandoc -stC -Tlatin1 tmsplx.xml.5 \
> > | col -b > catman/tmsplx.xml.5
>
> Surely, you don't need "col" here. I always understood that it
> was not required by "groff", and it isn't included in any "groff"
> distribution. Moreover, there's a note in the "man.conf" template
> distributed with man-1.5m2 for Linux, that says a combination of
> "col" -- from some other source -- with "groff" can actually
> *damage* the output.
>
> Try
>
> groff -mandoc -stc -Tlatin1 -P-c tmsplx.xml.5 \
> > catman/tmsplx.xml.5
>
> HTH.
>
> Regards,
> Keith.
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Output from this command:
________________________________________________________________
tmsplx.xml(5) tmsplx.xml(5)
^[[1mNAME^[[0m
tmsplx.xml - ServerProtect for Linux (SPLX) configuration file
^[[1mDESCRIPTION^[[0m
The ^[[4m/opt/TrendMicro/SProtectLinux/tmsplx.xml^[[24m file contains
all the con-
figuration parameters for the ServerProtect for Linux antivirus soft-
ware. This is an ^[[1mXML ^[[22mfile, with entries in the following
format:
^[[1m<P Name="key" Value="value" />^[[0m
Note the following:
-- Each parameter begins with ^[[1m< ^[[22mand ends with ^[[1m/>^[[22m.
-- All keys and values must be surrounded by double quotes
(^[[1m"^[[22m).
-- When a value contains multiple values, the values are separated
with a colon (^[[1m:^[[22m). For example:
^[[1m/var/tmp:/home/samba:/tmp^[[0m
^[[1mexe:dll^[[0m
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