[PLUG] a question which has stumped the finest minds

Michael Luevane mikel at quantecllc.com
Fri Nov 7 12:06:01 UTC 2003


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> From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org
> [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org]On Behalf Of Jeme A Brelin
> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 11:50 AM
> To: PLUG
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] a question which has stumped the finest minds
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > How do I enable underlined words in the console? When I 
> read man pages
> > in an xterm, certain words are underlined. But opening the 
> same man page
> > in a console, the underlines are not there. (for additional 
> amusement,
> > the underlined words are called "italic")
> 
> This is pretty simple, but have you compared your TERM variable?  I
> believe this is where man decides which escape sequences to 
> send to the
> controlling tty.
> 
> Oh, but you'll never see this message, so fuck you.
> J.
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But *I* will see this message and I do NOT appreciate the language.

Maybe there's a reason you're being plonked...

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