--On Saturday, November 8, 2003 18:31 -0500 I wrote: > Some time back I installed perl 5.8 via fink. Now that I'm using it more > heavily and consulting the docs somewhat frequently, I notice that docs > viewed via perldoc are not properly formatted. To be specific, I'm seeing > ESC-codes on the screen at places where boldface should be.... > > I'll also add that I have similar installations on other Macs and have no > problems on those systems.
This turns out to be a problem with the nroff emulation by fink's version of groff. My systems that work correctly do not have the fink installation of groff, i.e.,they are using groff/nroff from Apple's distribution (which is groff 1.17.2, at least in Jaguar). An acceptable workaround is to define an alias (bash syntax): alias perldoc='/sw/bin/perldoc -n /usr/bin/nroff' to use the Apple installation of groff. Cheers, Mark (groff and perl maintainers cc'd) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
