Re: Problem printing man pages (Correction)
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:31:53PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Colin Watson(cjwatson@debian.org) is reported to have said:
> > I bet I know what's happened, then: you have some old cat pages in
> > /var/cache/man that were cached with a groff that output the ANSI SGR
> > escapes. Clean out everything in `find /var/cache/man -name cat\*` and
> > try again.
>
> That must have been, at least, part of it. Prior to receiving your
> mail I had to take the system down due to a fan failing in the box.
> Got your mail after I rebooted. Ran the above and only found files in
> /var/cache/man/cat1 and they were all man pages that had printed
> correctly.
>
> Just tried man apt-file and it now prints to paper corectly. I had
> forgotten all about the cached man pages. My bad there.
>
> Thanks again Colin. I hope this excersize helped someone elso besides
> me.
If I remember, it may find its way into some documentation somewhere
too: perhaps groff's README.Debian. It should have occurred to me
earlier that caching was a possibility.
> Have a great weekend!!
You too,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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