From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: The manpage of the telnet-command shows a lot of garbage. Telnet itself does work fine. I tried different telnet emulators (ssh, telnet, ivt, putty) -> no difference. [jacco@riker ~]$ echo $TERM vt100 [jacco@riker ~]$ man telnet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .TH TELNET 1 .SH NAME telnet � user interface to the TELNET protocol .SH SYNOPSIS .B telnet [�8] [�E] [�F] [�K] [�L] [�S tos] [�X authtype] [�a] [�c] [�d] [�e escapechar] [�f] [�k realm] [�l user] [�n tracefile] [�r] [�x] [host [port]] The command is used to communicate with another host using the protocol. If is invoked without the argu- ment, it enters command mode, indicated by its prompt ( In this mode, it accepts and executes the commands listed below. If it is invoked with arguments, it performs an command with those arguments. Specify an 8-bit data path. This causes an attempt to nego- tiate the option on both input and output. Stop any character from being recognized as an escape character. �F forward a copy of the local credentials to the remote system. �K Specify no automatic login to the remote system. Specify an 8-bit data path on output. This causes the BINARY option to be negotiated on output. �S tos Set the IP type-of-service (TOS) option for the telnet Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): telnet-0.17-30 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. type 'man telnet' 2. 3. Expected Results: A correct formatted manpage Additional info: A few other FC3-users (I asked them) have the same problem. In Redhat 9.0 the problem doesn't show.
$ man -aw telnet /usr/kerberos/man/man1/telnet.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/telnet.1.gz This is the kerberos telnet manpage... it has tabs at the beginning of some lines..
This sounds like a dup of bug #145738
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 145738 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.