Boris Samorodov wrote:
Hi,

On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:31 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote:

We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based
distro) that all man pages malformed.

What is the base FreeBSD version?

FreeBSD 7.2

Eg. man tar shows as follows:
1mNAME0m
    1mtar 22m-- format of tape archive files

1mDESCRIPTION0m
    The 1mtar 22marchive format collects any number of files,
directories, and

What are your terminal, locale, fonts?

echo $TERM
xterm-color

How do I know what locale and fonts are effective?

Our "default" in /etc/login.conf is same as FreeBSD's.
What have we missed?

Well, there were good old days ;-) when the grass was green
and manual pages were written in plain ASCII. Those days
passed, welcome to the shiny future. Manual pages have
colors, belts and whistles and can be viewed only at xterm
and with some fonts.

*sign* bsam, who used a copy-n-paste from DISKLESS(8) and
lost nfs connectivity.


Regards
Sagara
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