Hi Harold,

Harold Benfield wrote on Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 04:56:43PM -0500:

> Can someone verify the same man page output and if so, fix the
> formatting of the man page?  
> 
> ---snip---
> 
> SASLAUTHD(8)            OpenBSD System Manager's Manual
> SASLAUTHD(8)
> 
> [1mNAME[0m
>      [1msaslauthd [22m- sasl authentication server
> 
> [1mSYNOPSIS[0m
>      [1msaslauthd -a [4m[22mauthmech[24m [[1m-Tvdchlr[22m] [[1m-O
> [4m[22moption[24m] [[1m-m [4m[22mmux_path[24m] [[1m-n
> [4m[22mthreads[24m]
>                [[1m-s [4m[22msize[24m] [[1m-t [4m[22mtimeout[24m]
> 
> [1mDESCRIPTION[0m
>      [1msaslauthd [22mis a daemon process that handles plaintext
> authentication
>      requests on behalf of the SASL library.
> 
> ---snip---

Well, that happens when you run

 $  groff -man -Tascii `man -w saslauthd` | less

That doesn't answer the question why you are running
that command, though.  You are not even saying which
command you are running, right?

Try running either of the following instead:

 $ mandoc `man -w saslauthd` | less
 $ groff -P-c -man -Tascii `man -w saslauthd` | less
 $ groff -man -Tascii `man -w saslauthd` | less -R

All three will look much better.

Sometimes, it also helps to say which architecture and which
operating system version you are running on.  In this case,
though, you are lucky, what you are talking about is pretty
much independent of that.

Yours,
  Ingo

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