Re: Solaris 9 'less' mishandles groff 1.19 SGR commands

[Werner LEMBERG]

[I've CCed Mark]

From: "Paul Eggert" <address@hidden>
Subject: Solaris 9 'less' mishandles groff 1.19 SGR commands
Date: Fri,  6 Jun 2003 14:49:04 -0700

> groff -Tascii -man /usr/share/man/man1/bash.1 | /usr/bin/less -R
> 
> DESCRIPTION OF INCORRECT BEHAVIOUR:
> The output doesn't look good, because "less" doesn't seem to
> act on escape sequences like "ESC [ 2 4 m".  It does act on
> "ESC [ 0 m", though.  I don't know why.
> 
> /usr/bin/less -V reports "less 358".  I built and used less 381, but
> had the same problem with it.

I can't reproduce this problem on my GNU/Linux box.  It looks like
being related to Solaris 9.  Until today, I didn't get such a report.
Mark, anything known about Paul's problem?


    Werner