[NCLUG] Fix man pages

John L. Bass jbass at dmsd.com
Sat Oct 23 11:36:56 MDT 2004


> "Dave Treece" <davet at frii.com> writes:
> Is there something like that for linux, or is there a magic incantation
> for the man command such that control chars are stripped/ignored when
> displaying man pages.

Hi Dave,

On other UNIX boxes, the trick was to set TERM environment variable
to a relatively dumb paper terminal ... try dumb or tty33, to disable
cursor positioning in the "curses" functions.

John



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