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bug #46925: 'man-db' prints bogus characters and escape codes on some terminals

Submitter:  Wyatt Ward <wyatt8740>
Submitted:  Mon 18 Jan 2016 12:27:59 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Item Group:  None Status:  None
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Mon 18 Jan 2016 12:43:02 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Additionally, here's a few lines of the hex dump of my serial log of 'man man'.

(file #36071)

Wyatt Ward <wyatt8740>
Mon 18 Jan 2016 12:27:59 AM UTC, original submission:  

I've got an IBM 3161 ASCII terminal hooked to my linux box. Whenever I open a manpage, I get the letter 'm' before every newline. Additionally, I get the message 'HOST PROG WRONG' on my terminal's message line, due to invalid escape codes.

Piping 'man' through 'less' extenally (I am aware it already acts as the pager by default) fixes this. I logged some output via 'socat' and saw that each line, instead of ending with the CRLF that my terminal wants, was ending with '\033[m\r\n' (ESC, [, m, CR, LF). The problem appears to be related to setting attributes under an assumption of what the terminal needs, without checking in termcap.

Here's a photo of what a typical manpage looks like:
http://i.imgur.com/zz5Xmys.jpg

Wyatt Ward <wyatt8740>

 

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file #36071:  logterm.txt added by wyatt8740 (2KiB - text/plain - Attached serial log file of 'man man')
file #36070:  term-mandb.jpg added by wyatt8740 (1MiB - image/jpeg - Photo of my terminal displaying the manpage for 'less'.)

 

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    2016-01-18 wyatt8740 Attached File- Added logterm.txt, #36071
    2016-01-18 wyatt8740 Attached File- Added term-mandb.jpg, #36070

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