[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dashes messed up in man pages on OpenIndiana oi_147

[Albert Lee]

On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> Hillel Lubman wrote:
>> I just noticed, that man pages started to look strangely. For example *man
>> ls* produces:
>>
>>      --a --all
>>           do not ignore entries starting with .
>>
>>      --A --almost--al
>>           do not list implied . and ..
>>
>>      --author
>>           with --l print the author of each file
>>
>>      --b --escape
>>           print C-style escapes for nongraphic characters
>>
>> Note the double dash --a. Those double dashes are all around. I.e. every
>> dash seems to be shown as double (also it's not two symbols - it's actually
>> one character).
>>
>> What can be causing it?
>
> Use of groff instead of Solaris nroff for man page formatting.
> Try putting /usr/bin ahead of /usr/gnu/bin in $PATH.
>
> --
>        -Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
>         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
>

This is a known issue and will be fixed in the next release:
https://www.illumos.org/issues/261

Alan's workaround is correct.

-Albert