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Bug 11621
| Summary: | Man pages displaying <AD> at end of lines | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Stephen Rasku <redhat> |
| Component: | man | Assignee: | Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-05-29 19:26:19 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
| Embargoed: | |||
'export LESSCHARSET=latin1' fixes this problem. Setting the charset is not a solution for all users. You need to edit your
/etc/man.config and change this line:
PAGER /usr/bin/less -is
to
PAGER /usr/bin/less -isr
That solves the problem. Here's an explanation in less man page:
-r or --raw-control-chars
Causes "raw" control characters to be displayed. The default is to
display control characters using the caret notation; for example, a
control-A (octal 001) is displayed as "^A". Warning: when the -r
option is used, less cannot keep track of the actual appearance of the
screen (since this depends on how the screen responds to each type of
control character). Thus, various display problems may result, such
as long lines being split in the wrong place.
I've never experienced any problems the man page indicates so I doubt you will
either.
-Stan Bubrouski
Thanks, fixed in 1.5h1-8 |
I am getting <AD> displayed at the end of lines for a lot of man pages. It will occur on a text console or on a Konsole under KDE and it displays in the same place on both. Here's an example, man rwhod: RWHOD(8) System Manager's Manual RWHOD(8) NAME rwhod - system status server SYNOPSIS rwhod [-bpa] DESCRIPTION Rwhod is the server which maintains the database used by the rwho(1) and ruptime(1) programs. Its operation is predicated on the ability to broadcast messages on a network. Rwhod operates as both a producer and consumer of status information. As a producer of information it periodically queries the state of the system and constructs status messages which are broadcast on a network. As a consumer of information, it listens for other rwhod servers' status mes<AD> sages, validating them, then recording them in a collection of files lo<AD> cated in the directory /var/spool/rwho.