topic nroff in Operating System - HP-UX

nroff

H. Mund — Thu, 15 Aug 2002 07:55:43 GMT

Hi all,

i created my own man page, but i have strange characters in my page like: "^[9".
My source for nroff looks like:

.TH remove_user.sh 1 "15 August 2002"
.SH NAME
remove_user.sh \- Remove User from UNIX,Oracle
.SH SYNOPSIS
\fBremove_user.sh\fP < username >
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBremove_user.sh\fP loescht den angegebenen Benutzer aus der \fB/etc/passwd\fP,
loescht das Home-Verzeichnis und entfernt den passenden Eintrag aus der \fB$BSE
/lib/ora/ora_users\fP.
! Man muss als root angemeldet sein. !
.SS OPTIONS
.TP
\fBnone\fP

so where is my fault?

Thanks in advance.

HM

Re: nroff

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Thu, 15 Aug 2002 08:08:47 GMT

It's not in nroff, it's in your output device definition. use 'untic xterm' if you are formatting for xterm to see if there is a \e9 sequence. Same for whatever other device you use.

Consider the GNU groff package (which also brings a modern nroff) to be able to format your man pages to PostScript, which works great on PS printers and/or ghostview/gv

Re: nroff

Frank Slootweg — Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:15:01 GMT

I do not know if your manual page (source) is *exactly* what you have posted, but in what you have posted, there are strange f-*like* characters between the "\" and "B" c.q. "P". They are probably non-ASCII characters which should not be there.