manual page formatting issues
Yuri Pankov
yuri.pankov at gmail.com
Sat Feb 5 05:07:06 UTC 2011
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 02:24:31PM +1000, Rob wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (running on VMWare Server 2.0.2) and am
> having some odd issues the formatting of man pages.
>
> If I view a man page (as root) in the console it displays correctly. If I
> view the man page (again, as root) in a (PuTTY) terminal session, the bold
> formatting of the command line arguments is missing.
>
> See the following screen shot examples:
>
> Console: http://imageupload.org/?di=612968791464
>
> Terminal: http://imageupload.org/?di=112968791464
>
> In the console session I have the TERM=cons25.
>
> In the terminal session I have it set to TERM=xterm. My PuTTY settings are
> pretty much the default, including the "Connection->Data->Terminal-type
> string" set to xterm.
>
> The pager in both sessions is set to more.
>
> I've played around with various terminal settings, to no avail. Can someone
> please offer some pointers as to how I might fix this?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
You probably forgot to change Window->Colors->Default Bold Foreground
color values in PuTTY (works just fine here).
HTH,
Yuri
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