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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:22:01 -0400
From: aoratos <aoratos AT wideopenwest DOT com>
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Subject: Re: man pages formating (msg to Chris)
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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?
>>
> 
> 
> 
> Check your '/usr/share/misc/man.config' file.  Make sure PAGER is set
> to '/usr/bin/less -isrR'.
> 

Chris, I am having the same problems you just posted (man pages messed 
up and .bashrc problems).

I have confirmed that my .bashrc and /usr/share/misc/man.conf (not 
man.config on my machine) are in the correct places and have the correct 
contents.  I believe my problem is related to permissions, the config 
files are not being read even though I am the owner.  While checking 
Larry Hall's suggestion (thanks) I could not read the man.conf file 
until I did a chmod on it.  I am guessing my problem is related to 
"ntsec" and the fact that whenever I try to run mkpasswd and mkgroup as 
required, they die or timeout because I am on a global enterprise domain.

I'm sorry this really isn't an answer for you, but I thought it might 
help your own troubleshooting.

Aoratos

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