Package: man-db
Version: 2.4.3-3
Severity: important
Hi Collin,
On sarge system (with man-db 2.4.2-21)
man -P less man
command is equivalent to
man -P cat man | less
i.e. the generated pages look exactly the same. That is no longer true
for man-db 2.4.3-3.
The sid version of the man command strips control characters with `col'
when stdout is not connected to the terminal. This uglifies output of
`pinfo -m' and dwww, beacuse they no longer use bold and italic font
to emphasize some part of manual pages text.
Could you please either revert to the old behaviour or add some commandline
option which would prevent filtering with 'col' on nontermianls?
Best Regards,
robert
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