On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 04:31:53PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I bet I know what's happened, then: you have some old cat pages in > > /var/cache/man that were cached with a groff that output the ANSI SGR > > escapes. Clean out everything in `find /var/cache/man -name cat\*` and > > try again. > > That must have been, at least, part of it. Prior to receiving your > mail I had to take the system down due to a fan failing in the box. > Got your mail after I rebooted. Ran the above and only found files in > /var/cache/man/cat1 and they were all man pages that had printed > correctly. > > Just tried man apt-file and it now prints to paper corectly. I had > forgotten all about the cached man pages. My bad there. > > Thanks again Colin. I hope this excersize helped someone elso besides > me.
If I remember, it may find its way into some documentation somewhere too: perhaps groff's README.Debian. It should have occurred to me earlier that caching was a possibility. > Have a great weekend!! You too, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]