Thanks to: (in no particular order)
"Elston, Jeremy"
"Skeate, Scott B (N-GTE)"
Jonathan Burelbach
Thomas P. Blinn
Joerg Bruehe
Dennis Breeden
"Sean O'Connell"
And others whose replies have not reached me yet.
Answer:
It was the PAGER environment variable.. I had it set to "less" which is
what I needed on Sun systems since their 'more' doesn't allow scroll-backs.
'more' on Tru64 will scroll backwards.
Interestingly, less (3.32) works fine with ksh and not with tcsh & csh???
Why this should be, I certainly don't know.
As suggested by several, it was not the stty settings at all. Several folks
suggested the MORE variable, which not actually set, so I looked at PAGER,
which is set. man man tells me to set PAGER, and doesn't mention MORE, so
I did what I was told (for once).
Recap of the Problem:
All escape characters to enable display of bold (overstrike?) on the man
pages are echoed to the screen as ESC (in inverse video) followed by the
control characters...
Addendum:
Several folks asked what qterm is. It's a program which figures out what
to set the TERM variable to and I've used it because it's easier than
fixing all the non-standard TERM definitions sent by odd-ball terminal
emulator programs In particular the Novell telnets use non-standard names
when they connect. Connecting to a system they claim to be of term type
'dec-vt220' and so on. Despite this being (nominally) a DEC system, the
termcap has no idea what a dec-vt220 is and so most of the editors and so
on don't work except in 'ed' mode.
QTerm Home Page
http://www.magnicomp.com/qterm/
Chad Price
Systems Manager, Genetic Sequence Analysis Facility
University of Nebraska Medical Center
986495 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68506-6495
cprice_at_molbio.unmc.edu
(402) 559-9527
(402) 559-4077 (FAX)
Received on Thu Feb 17 2000 - 18:28:03 NZDT