Re: Problem printing man pages (Correction)

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Colin Watson(cjwatson@debian.org) is reported to have said:
> On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 09:47:32AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> > Wayne Topa(brittman@capital.net) is reported to have said:

<-- Snip -->> > 

> > I used man 'man' as an example.  It turns out it was a bad example as
> > the above commands print the man manpages correctly!
> > 
> > Changing the 'man man' to 'man apt-file' would be a correct example.
> 
> 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.

Have a great weekend!!

Wayne
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