Re: Documentation - I see squares
A few manpages are formatted in a style that less doesn't completely
clean up. Most seems to handle these a little better. Most detects and
unzips gzip'd documents automatically.
Bob
At 05:50 PM 3/2/97 -0500, "Susan G. Kleinmann" <sgk@kleinmann.com> wrote:
>> In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc there are
>> there little squares or cryptic <$%^> thingees. I guess that there's
>> something I've missed somewhere...
>>
>> What have/haven't I done?
>
>On the assumption that you ran into some highlighting or underlining
>markup, then you might try running your documents through a smart
>pager that's able to do something reasonable with such things.
>Try this:
> export MANPAGER=/usr/bin/less
>
>(Of course, this only works if you have the 'less' package installed.)
>
>If it works for you, then you might want to put this line into your
>.bashrc or whatever startup script you use.
>
>If the problem is that the documents you're looking at are gzip'd then
>you'll want to read them with zless, by executing, e.g.,
> zless /usr/doc/man/README.gz
>
>Hope that helps.
>Susan Kleinmann
>
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