malformed man pages

[Sagara Wijetunga]

Boris Samorodov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:50:31 +0800 Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
>
>   
>> We have an issue on Tomahawk Desktop (an upcoming FreeBSD-based
>> distro) that all man pages malformed.
>>     
>
> What is the base FreeBSD version?
>
>   
FreeBSD 7.2

>> Eg. man tar shows as follows:
>> 1mNAME0m
>>     1mtar 22m-- format of tape archive files
>>     
>
>   
>> 1mDESCRIPTION0m
>>     The 1mtar 22marchive format collects any number of files,
>> directories, and
>>     
>
> What are your terminal, locale, fonts?
>
>   
echo $TERM
xterm-color

How do I know what locale and fonts are effective?

Our "default" in /etc/login.conf is same as FreeBSD's.
>> What have we missed?
>>     
>
> Well, there were good old days ;-) when the grass was green
> and manual pages were written in plain ASCII. Those days
> passed, welcome to the shiny future. Manual pages have
> colors, belts and whistles and can be viewed only at xterm
> and with some fonts.
>
> *sign* bsam, who used a copy-n-paste from DISKLESS(8) and
> lost nfs connectivity.
>
>   

Regards
Sagara