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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 12:14:08 -0500
From: Chris W <1qazse4@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: man pages formating
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Larry Hall wrote:

>At 11:03 AM 6/16/2004, you wrote:
>  
>
>>When I view man pages it doesn't format them properly, instead it shows codes like ESC[1m . . . how do I fix this?
>>
>>    
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>Check your '/usr/share/misc/man.config' file.  Make sure PAGER is set
>to '/usr/bin/less -isrR'.
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>  
>

Thanks.  I looked and the file was named man.config.default.   It had 
the write PAGER setting, so I just renamed it to man.config and all 
works great now.

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