>
> I can't be sure without seeing the actual codes, but my first guess
> would be that it is attempting to use ANSI colour sequences but the
> pager (e.g. less) is displaying a printable representation.
Glynn --
Your guess about ansi color is correct, that's how Patrick V set it up by
defualt. He also has less set in /etc/profile to LESS="-M"?
The "-r" option worke fine for me :-)
Thank a alway for you reply.
David
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Here' some out (with out the -r):
man(1) man(1)
[1mNAME[0m
man - format and display the on-line manual pages
manpath - determine user's search path for man pages
[1mSYNOPSIS[0m
[1mman [22m[[1m-acdfFhkKtwW[22m] [[1m--path[22m] [[1m-m
[4m[22msystem[24m] [[1m-p [4m[22mstring[24m] [[1m-C
[4m[22mconfig_file[24m]
[[1m-M [4m[22mpathlist[24m] [[1m-P [4m[22mpager[24m] [[1m-S
[4m[22msection_list[24m] [[4msection[24m] [4mname[24m [4m...[0m
[1mDESCRIPTION[0m
[1mman [22mformats and displays the on-line manual pages. If you
specify [4msec-[0m
[4mtion[24m, [1mman [22monly looks in that section of the manual.
[4mname[24m is normally
the name of the manual page, which is typically the name of a command,
function, or file. However, if [4mname[24m contains a slash
([1m/[22m)
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