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in thread Perldoc Problem: Linux or Perl?

It has nothing to do with KDE vs. GNOME, it's a bug in less-378-7/groff-1.18.1-20, if you upgrade to the latest version of those two packages from rawhide, the problem will go away.

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Re: Re: Re: Perldoc Problem: Linux or Perl?
by allolex (Curate) on Mar 17, 2003 at 10:29 UTC

    Thanks for the advice, and the problem did go away. That still leaves the question open as to why perldoc and man ouput was formatted correctly under gnome-terminal and xterm, and not under konsole (and putty over ssh, apparently). It still looks a lot like Redhat had a workaround for Gnome and not for KDE, since it worked correctly in those environments before updating.

    Update: added text in italics above.

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    Allolex

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      That must have something to do with your environment, as it was not formatted correctly for me using gnome-terminal or xterm until I tracked that bug down. Not being a KDE user, I can't comment on how konsole and gnome-terminal differ.

      We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!
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