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From: Thorsten Kampe <thorsten AT thorstenkampe DOT de>
Subject: Re: 'man' shows escape sequences after updating to docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 16:42:42 +0100
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* Thorsten Kampe (2003-12-29 19:48 +0100)
> * Lynn Wilson (2003-12-23 19:40 +0100)
>> It seems that a few months ago the man pages were showing the ESC[1m etc. escape 
>> sequences in a bash shell. The problem was quickly fixed.

>> I downloaded docbook_xsl 1.64.1-1 yesterday and the problem is back.  I also 
>> downloaded a few X-modules.  One of these modules caused the 'man' problem to 
>> re-appear.

> Same with me. Anyone with a solution (because every man page is 
> unreadable). I haven't installed any "X modules".

Got a personal mail referring to a recent thread called "man produces
ESC". My manpager was 'most' (which is no problem on Gentoo Linux).

export LESS=R
export MANPAGER=less

...in your .bashrc/.zshrc fixes the problem.

Thorsten


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