[tex-live] control characters in man page from tlmgr --help

Adam Mercer ramercer at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 20:05:51 CET 2010


Hi

I'm running the latest version of TexLive 2009,

$ sudo tlmgr update --self
Password:
tlmgr: package repository
http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
tlmgr: no updates for tlmgr present.
tlmgr: no updates available
$ sudo tlmgr update --all
tlmgr: package repository
http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
tlmgr: no updates available$

but when I try to see the help for tlmgr I get the following:

$ tlmgr --help
"/var/folders/Hc/Hc53KnQCGN8u9bLoMHnEqE+++TI/-Tmp-/wE5eXiJKEj" may be
a binary file.  See it anyway?
$

then get a man page with loads of control characters. Is anyone else
seeing this?

This is on Mac OS X Snow Leopard.

Cheers

Adam


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