On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@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.coopersm...@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 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
