On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:40:52AM -0500, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 10:40:52 -0500
> From: Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin@xxxxxxx>
> Organization: R F Goodwin
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: fc2 yellow text man pages -
> Reply-To: bobgoodwin@xxxxxxx,
> For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I prefer to run xterm using black text on a white background which works
> well for me except
> when I call a "man page." Many words are accented in yellow which is
> unreadable against a
> white background. I usually avoid the problem by using "info" instead of
> "man." But it seems
> to me there ought to be a better way. How can I force the man pages to
> use only black text?
Try
"xterm -cm".
Or
"man ls | colcrt | less "
There may be 100 other ways to use or not use color.
For example this also works and can be added to
your login dot file.
export MANPAGER=" colcrt | less"
or
export MANPAGER=" col -b | less"
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