Bug 71274

Summary:	man emits escape sequences w/o checking $TERM
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Kjetil T. Homme <kjetilho>
Component:	man	Assignee:	wdovlrrw <brosenkr>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Kjetil T. Homme 2002-08-11 20:00:04 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020712

Description of problem:
man 1.5j-9 emits escape sequences directly, regardless of how TERM is set.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. TERM=dumb man ls > /tmp/foo
2. od /tmp/foo | head


Actual Results:  /tmp/foo contains escape sequences

Expected Results:  it should be plain text.

man 1.5j-6 also ignores $TERM, but it uses the good old backspace convention to
add bold and underline, which is easily removable using ul(1).


Additional info:

Comment 1 Kjetil T. Homme 2002-10-02 19:43:35 UTC

hurrah!  man-1.5j-11 in Psyche uses the backspace convention!