[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dashes messed up in man pages on OpenIndiana oi_147
Hillel Lubman
shtetldik at gmail.com
Tue Nov 9 04:56:25 UTC 2010
I see, thanks.
On 08/11/10 15:49, Alan Coopersmith 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
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