Telnet Man Page

[Paul Howarth]

Bob Chiodini wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:21 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>Bob Chiodini wrote:
>>
>>>The telnet man page is almost unreadable.  Does anyone else see this?
>>>
>>>It looks okay in rawhide.
>>
>>FC3 telnet manpage looks fine here. What is your locale setting?
>>
>>Does "LANG=C man telnet" look any better?
>>
>>Paul.
>>
> 
> 
> Paul,
> 
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> 
> LANG=C man telnet does not look any different.
> 
> First page of man telnet (LANG=C):
> 
>         .           .          .          .          .          .
>         .          .          .          .          .           .
>         .           .          .          .          .          .
>         .             .             .             .             .
>         .TH  TELNET  1         .SH NAME         telnet - user in-
> terface 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 commu-
> nicate with another host using the protocol.  If is invoked with-
> out the argument, it enters command mode, indicated by its prompt
> ( In this mode, it accepts and executes the commands  listed  be-
> low.   If  it  is  invoked with arguments, it performs an command
> with those arguments.  Specify an 8-bit data path.   This  causes
> an  attempt  to  negotiate  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 connection to the value which can be a nu-
> meric TOS value (in decimal, or a hex value preceded by 0x, or an
> octal  value preceded by a leading 0) or, on systems that support
> 
> Rawhide also has LANG=en_US.UTF-8, but the man page looks correct.

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"?

Paul.