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Markus Uhr
uhrm at inf.ethz.ch
Wed Aug 25 09:29:14 CEST 2010
On 25. Aug 2010, at 1:57, Karl Berry wrote:
> Reinhard,
>
>
> * tlmgr --help: The TeX Live Manager uses "less" to display the help
> text. In the new version, it shows some wired escape sequences.
>
> I can reproduce it on tug.org, ssh'd in with a plain old xterm, locale
> settings all POSIX. I run:
> $ (unset LESS; unset LESSOPEN; tlmgr help)
>
> And it says:
> "/tmp/OWdfETYIXZ" may be a binary file. See it anyway?
>
> And I type "y" and and what I see is the attached screenshot, full of
> ESC sequences.
>
> If I just hit RET instead of typing "y" to the binary file question, it
> displays correctly.
This is exactly what I'm seeing, too. I noticed this morning that it happens only when I do "sudo tlmgr --help", i.e. as root. As a normal user it works as expected.
To be more precise:
$ sudo tlmgr --help
"/tmp/XXXXXX" may be a binary file. See it anyway?
and then typing "y" shows the help page with escape sequences.
$ sudo tlmgr --help
"/tmp/XXXXXX" may be a binary file. See it anyway?
and typing <enter> shows the help page without escape sequences, but line brakes are wrong.
$ tlmgr --help
shows everything ok.
Best,
Markus
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