From Bugzilla Helper: 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:
hurrah! man-1.5j-11 in Psyche uses the backspace convention!