A few manpages are formatted in a style that less doesn't completely clean up. Most seems to handle these a little better. Most detects and unzips gzip'd documents automatically.
Bob At 05:50 PM 3/2/97 -0500, "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc there are >> there little squares or cryptic <$%^> thingees. I guess that there's >> something I've missed somewhere... >> >> What have/haven't I done? > >On the assumption that you ran into some highlighting or underlining >markup, then you might try running your documents through a smart >pager that's able to do something reasonable with such things. >Try this: > export MANPAGER=/usr/bin/less > >(Of course, this only works if you have the 'less' package installed.) > >If it works for you, then you might want to put this line into your >.bashrc or whatever startup script you use. > >If the problem is that the documents you're looking at are gzip'd then >you'll want to read them with zless, by executing, e.g., > zless /usr/doc/man/README.gz > >Hope that helps. >Susan Kleinmann >
