On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:21 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
Bob Chiodini wrote:
The telnet man page is almost unreadable. Does anyone else see this?
It looks okay in rawhide.
FC3 telnet manpage looks fine here. What is your locale setting?
Does "LANG=C man telnet" look any better?
Paul.
Paul,
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANG=C man telnet does not look any different.
First page of man telnet (LANG=C):
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TH TELNET 1 .SH NAME telnet - user in- terface to the TELNET protocol .SH SYNOPSIS .B telnet [-8] [-E] [-F] [-K] [-L] [-S tos] [-X authtype] [-a] [-c] [-d] [-e escapechar] [-f] [-k realm] [-l user] [-n tracefile] [-r] [-x] [host [port]] The command is used to commu- nicate with another host using the protocol. If is invoked with- out the argument, it enters command mode, indicated by its prompt ( In this mode, it accepts and executes the commands listed be- low. If it is invoked with arguments, it performs an command with those arguments. Specify an 8-bit data path. This causes an attempt to negotiate the option on both input and output. Stop any character from being recognized as an escape character. -F forward a copy of the local credentials to the remote system. -K Specify no automatic login to the remote system. Specify an 8-bit data path on output. This causes the BINARY option to be negotiated on output. -S tos Set the IP type-of-service (TOS) option for the telnet connection to the value which can be a nu- meric TOS value (in decimal, or a hex value preceded by 0x, or an octal value preceded by a leading 0) or, on systems that support
Rawhide also has LANG=en_US.UTF-8, but the man page looks correct.
The "man" program does not appear to be expanding macros like ".TH" abd ".SH" in the source. Is this just happening for the telnet manpage or for all manpages? How about "man rlogin"?
Paul.
