ESCape codes displayed instead of processed in pager

[Jim Bryant]

Matt Thyer wrote:
>
> On Mar 29, 2012 5:18 AM, "Jim Bryant" <kc5vdj.freebsd at gmail.com 
> <mailto:kc5vdj.freebsd at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Ever since I have upgraded to 9-stable, I have noticed that the 
> manpages seem to be munged up with displayed instead of processed 
> ESCape codes.
>
> I believe that this is due to the terminal type of the console 
> changing from "cons25" to "xterm".  If you fix your /etc/ttys to 
> reflect this things should be OK.
>
 1:27:57pm  argus(19): tty
/dev/pts/7
 1:28:03pm  argus(20): setenv TERM xterm
 1:28:05pm  argus(21): man man
MAN(1)                  FreeBSD General Commands Manual                 
MAN(1)

ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
     ESC[1mman ESC[22m-- display online manual documentation pages

same thing going on.  that's after switching every vty and the console 
to xterm in /etc/ttys as well.

i'm kinda lost on this one.  i have determined that somehow, it's the 
pager...  hang on a sec... lemme try vi.

vi seems to be working properly...  it's not the termcap/terminfo...  
the only thing causing this seems to be more and less, both.

when i pipe man into cat, everything gets properly interpreted by the 
tty/vty/pty, when i use the pager, i get this crap....argh..