man pages formating

[Chris W]

Larry Hall wrote:

>At 11:03 AM 6/16/2004, you wrote:
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>>When I view man pages it doesn't format them properly, instead it shows codes like ESC[1m . . . how do I fix this?
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>Check your '/usr/share/misc/man.config' file.  Make sure PAGER is set
>to '/usr/bin/less -isrR'.
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Thanks.  I looked and the file was named man.config.default.   It had 
the write PAGER setting, so I just renamed it to man.config and all 
works great now.

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