TERM={xterm-r5,xterm-r6} behaving badly with man(1)

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Sun Jul 29 16:52:00 UTC 2007


On Mon, 30 Jul 2007, Rong-en Fan wrote:
> 
> Thomas has explained me in details about what his has. Judge from
> Daniel's original post, I would like to know which libncurses.so that
> xterm is using, and is devel/ncurses or devel/ncurses-devel installed?
>
> The ncurses update was in late Jan and enable widec support in Mar, IIRC.
> Since then, only few non-functional Makefile changes to base's ncurses
> part. BTW, base's less is updated in early Jun, not sure if it's related.

FYI, setting PAGER="more -Xd" works around the problem, but I don't think
that really proves anything.

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DE


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