Well, am I not just the idiot!!
Send off my problem about escape sequences and I have the guy on the
other side of the office reply with the answer!!! Should have asked him
in the first place...
My problem...
>> Greetings,
>> The problem I am having is when I do a 'man' on anything I get a MAN
>> page output with alot of escape sequences.
>> When I first installed Dec UNIX 3.2d I got the standard perfectly
>> formated MAN pages. I ran 'catman' as root and then my problems
started.
>> I ran 'catman' by mistake, thought I was on my Sun!!
>> I have not installed anything except for GCC. So I am pretty sure it
is
>> not something that I have changed from the original OS install.
>>
>> Anyone know how to fix this problem short of reinstalling the OS?
I'd
>> look it up in the MAN pages but they're very hard to read right now.
:'(
>>
<rob.naccarato_at_sheridanc.on.ca>'s solution...(Thanks)
>You might want to just delete all the 'cat?' dirs. I think you can just
>wipe out everything under '/usr/man/cat?'. If those dirs don't exist,
man
>will look in '/usr/man/man?'.
Worked like a charm. Also I should mention that if you use the 'catman'
program to rebuild the whatis database you should use the command 'catman
-w' to leave out the MAN page reformating.
later.
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Mark Zander mark.zander_at_sheridanc.on.ca
Technical Support
Sheridan College (905) 845-9430 ext. 2166
1430 Trafalger Rd (905) 815-4011 fax.
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Received on Wed Mar 26 1997 - 22:51:12 NZST