On Tue, Jul 26, 2005, Doug Summers wrote: >This seems to be platform-independent... > >When trying to display OpenPKG man pages most of them work great. Here >is my output for 'openpkg man gcc": > ... >For rpm it's a scrambled mess: > >Red Hat Linux RPM(8) > >ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m > rpm - RPM Package Manager > >ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m > ESC[1mQUERYING AND VERIFYING PACKAGES:ESC[0m > ESC[1mrpm ESC[22m{ESC[1m-q|--queryESC[22m} >[ESC[1mselect-optionsESC[22m] [ >ESC[1mquery-optionsESC[22m]
My SWAG on this is the setting of your PAGER environment variable. I think the default for OpenPKG is ``less -E -r'' where the -E automatically quits at the end of the viewing (which I *HATE* and turn off), and the -r seems to be the trick to get less to view man pages correctly. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ To say that UNIX is doomed is pretty rabid, OS/2 will certainly play a role, but you don't build a hundred million instructions per second multiprocessor micro and then try to run it on OS/2. I mean, get serious. -- William Zachmann, International Data Corp ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List openpkg-users@openpkg.org