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Re: Escape sequences displaying in man pages



On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 06:18:13AM -0600, Curt Daugaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running unstable and use the most package as pager for man pages.  
> After an upgrade the color output broke and I see instead the raw escape 
> sequences.  Running update-alternatives, I noticed the pager was changed 
> to less.  I set it back to most, but that didn't help.
> 
> Any help appreciated.
> 
Are you using the console or xterm, gnome-terminal, rxvt, etc.?  What is
the output of "echo $TERM" ?


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"do".
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