Telnet Man Page

[Paul Howarth]

James Wilkinson wrote:
> Bob Chiodini wrote:
> 
>>The telnet man page is almost unreadable.  Does anyone else see this?
> 
> 
> Yes. But I'm on x86-64 (shiny new computer)! Are you?

I'm on i386 and it looks fine.

> Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>FC3 telnet manpage looks fine here. What is your locale setting?
> 
> 
> Personally, en_GB.UTF-8.

en_GB.UTF-8 here too.

>>Does "LANG=C man telnet" look any better?
> 
> As Bob said, no.
> 
> 
>>The "man" program does not appear to be expanding macros like ".TH" abd 
>>".SH" in the source. Is this just happening for the telnet manpage or 
>>for all manpages? How about "man rlogin"?
> 
> 
> man rlogin looks fine to me.
> 
> [james at kendrick ~]$ rpm -qV man
> [james at kendrick ~]$ rpm -qV telnet
> [james at kendrick ~]$ rpm -q man
> man-1.5o1-7
> [james at kendrick ~]$ rpm -q telnet
> telnet-0.17-30

$ rpm -q man telnet
man-1.5o1-7
telnet-0.17-30

Snap!

Paul.