On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 08:20:44AM -0400, Michael George wrote:
> I noticed today that my man pages aren't displaying correctly. Whenever
> I view one, I see the ESC codes rather than seeing bold fonts, etc.
>
> I don't remeber when I last used man and it displayed correctly, but I
> can check back 2 weeks this evening.
>
> I have tried several terminals (xterm, gnome-terminal, konsole) and all
> have the problem.
>
> Would this be a tercap problem? Unicode issue, perhaps?
It was /etc/man-conf. A change in the NROFF definition caused the
problem. Running dispatch-conf didn't prompt me for the config change,
so I ran etc-update this time and found it.
Hopefully this will be helpful for someone.
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