Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-05 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Charlie Kester wrote: On Fri 04 Dec 2009 at 22:38:22 PST Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Michael Powell wrote: Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? Does the less need to be patched in Free

Re: malformed man pages [SOLVED]

2009-12-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 05), Sagara Wijetunga said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > Since your output differs from mine, the manpages are getting damaged > > before they reach /usr/bin/less. > > > > Have you maybe installed your own copy of GNU groff? The original > > source enables ANSI escapes in m

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-05 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Charlie Kester wrote: On Fri 04 Dec 2009 at 22:38:22 PST Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Michael Powell wrote: Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so, is there such

Re: malformed man pages [SOLVED]

2009-12-05 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 05), Sagara Wijetunga said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 04), Sagara Wijetunga said: We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNA

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 04 Dec 2009 at 22:38:22 PST Sagara Wijetunga wrote: Michael Powell wrote: Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so, is there such a patch exist? Uhmm

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 05), Sagara Wijetunga said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Dec 04), Sagara Wijetunga said: > >> > >> We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) > >> that all man pages malformed. > >> > >> Eg. man tar shows as follows: > >> 1mNAME0

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Michael Powell wrote: Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so, is there such a patch exist? Uhmm, this may sound a little strange, but why

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Michael Powell
Sagara Wijetunga wrote: [snip] > > We use /usr/bin/less from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/less, the > less-382.tar.gz, unpatched. Why? > Does the less need to be patched in FreeBSD? If so, is there such a > patch exist? > Uhmm, this may sound a little strange, but why not use the one included as p

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Dec 04), Sagara Wijetunga said: Hi FreeBSD community We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNAME0m 1mtar 22m-- format of tape archive files 1mDESCRIPTI

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 04), Sagara Wijetunga said: > Hi FreeBSD community > > We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) > that all man pages malformed. > > Eg. man tar shows as follows: > 1mNAME0m > 1mtar 22m-- format of tape archive files > > 1mDESCRIPTION0m

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:02:41 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > Boris Samorodov wrote: > > On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:31 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > > > >> We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based > >> distro) that all man pages malformed. > > What is the base FreeBSD vers

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Sagara Wijetunga
Boris Samorodov wrote: Hi, On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:31 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote: We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based distro) that all man pages malformed. What is the base FreeBSD version? FreeBSD 7.2 Eg. man tar shows as follows: 1mNAME0m

Re: malformed man pages

2009-12-04 Thread Boris Samorodov
Hi, On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:31 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote: > We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based > distro) that all man pages malformed. What is the base FreeBSD version? > Eg. man tar shows as follows: > 1mNAME0m > 1mtar 22m-- format of tape archive files >