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

[Maxwell, Adam R]

On 02/23/10 11:50, "Adam Mercer" <ramercer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 13:39, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
> 
>> Sounds like you may have a bad tlmgr. Try using TeX Live Utility (in
>> /Applications/TeX/) which may get an updated version of tlmgr a different
>> way. Oh... I assume you are using the TeX Live 2009 supplied by MacTeX.
> 
> It was installed using a 2009 pretest version and then kept upto date
> using tlmgr, I don't have an /Applications/TeX directory.

If you don't have or don't want to use TeX Live Utility, it just uses the
disaster recovery script discussed here:

http://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html

You can download 
http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh and run
it to get tlmgr in a known good state.