Re: [Groff] groff man page blank

[Robert D. Goulding]

On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Zoong PHAM wrote:

> Thanks Tadziu and Werner for your help,
>
[snip]
>
> I tried the above routine in the installation directory.
> Now the outputs of "man groff" or "man grops" and others that
> groff-1.18.1 installed contain control characters
> like ESC[1m for bold, etc.
>
You need to use less -R.  I have in my .bash_profile the line

export LESS=-isR

which works.  Note that you also have to have a fairly up-to-date version
of less - mine is version 374, and I had to update from the version
distributed with RedHat.  IIRC, `more' works as is.

Robert.