NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/alt/folklore/computer/16322

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From: [e-mail] (David E A Wilson)
Subject: Re: Don't you hate it when...
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Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
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Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 02:39:11 GMT
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[e-mail] (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Don Stokes) writes:
>> Probably not.  But note <a> that the stupid thing had been told that it had
>> a VT100 on the end
>Most System-V-ish systems use "more" to page man entries. "More" doesn't know
>how to translate sequences of spaces and backspaces to control sequences. If
>you have "less" installed, try setting "PAGER" in your environment to "less".
>If it's not installed, FTP it. If "man" doesn't use "PAGER", try just piping
>"man" output to "less".

Strange - our SunOS 4.1.2 more does know how to translate x\b_ (or _\bx) into
either a stand-out mode x or an underlined x. It even has an option to
turn this off:

     -u   Suppress generation of  underlining  escape  sequences.
          Normally,  more  handles underlining, such as that pro-
          duced by nroff(1), in a manner appropriate to the  ter-
          minal.   If the terminal can perform underlining or has
          a stand-out  mode,  more  supplies  appropriate  escape
          sequences as called for in the text file.
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David Wilson                [phone] voice, [phone] fax
Dept Comp Sci, Uni of Wollongong    [e-mail]