P.S.  This is the same on RHEL4 and Solaris 10.  It's also true on our
older rollout on both RHEL3 and Solaris 9.  Basically, it's something
that broke a while ago which has been low priority for us to fix.  Now
it's on the radar again.

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 15:56 -0700, David M. Fetter wrote:
> All of the man pages throughout all of our openpkg rpms all are filled
> with ESC characters, so it looks like the following excerpt:
> 
> --- BEGIN CUT ---
> BUILD(1)                            OpenPKG
> BUILD(1)
> 
> 
> 
> ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
>        ESC[1mopenpkg build ESC[22m− ESC[1mOpenPKG ESC[22mMaintenance
> Tool
> 
> ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
>        ESC[1mopenpkg build ESC[22m[ESC[1m−R ESC[4mESC[22mrpmESC[24m]
> [ESC[1m−r
> ESC[4mESC[22mrepositoryESC[24m] [ESC[1m−f ESC[4mESC[22mindex.rdfESC[24m]
> [ESC[1m−uESC[22m] [ESC[1m−UESC[22m] [ESC[1m−zESC[22m]
>        [ESC[1m−ZESC[22m] [ESC[1m−iESC[22m] [ESC[1m−qESC[22m] [ESC[1m
> −sESC[22m] [ESC[1m−SESC[22m] [ESC[1m−MESC[22m] [ESC[1m−LESC[22m] [ESC[1m
> −WESC[22m] [ESC[1m−XESC[22m] [ESC[1m−KESC[22m] [ESC[1m−eESC[22m] [ESC[1m
> −bESC[22m] [ESC[1m−BESC[22m] [ESC[1m−GESC[22m]
>        [ESC[1m−P ESC[4mESC[22mpriv‐cmdESC[24m] [ESC[1m−N
> ESC[4mESC[22mnon‐priv‐cmdESC[24m] [ESC[1m−p
> ESC[4mESC[22mplatformESC[24m] [ESC[1m−D
> ESC[4mESC[22mvarESC[24m=ESC[4mvalESC[24m ...]  [ESC[1m−EESC[0m
>        ESC[4mnameESC[24m ...]  [ESC[1m−H ESC[4mESC[22mnameESC[24m ...]
> ([ESC[1m−aESC[22m] [ESC[1m−AESC[22m] ⎪ ESC[4mpatternESC[24m ...)
> 
> ESC[1mDESCRIPTIONESC[0m
>        The ESC[1mopenpkg build ESC[22mtool provides automated recursive
> from‐scr
> --- END CUT ---
> 
> Can anyone help me fix this issue?  This makes reading man pages a bit
> difficult.
> 
-- 
David M. Fetter - UNIX Systems Administrator
Portland State University - www.oit.pdx.edu

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