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

[Lars Madsen]

Adam Mercer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 14:00, Maxwell, Adam R <adam.maxwell at pnl.gov> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Same behaviour after running the update script:
> 
> $ sudo sh ./update-tlmgr-latest.sh
> Verifying archive integrity... All good.
> Uncompressing TeX Live Manager
> Updater.............................................................................................................................................................
> ./runme.sh: updating in /usr/local/texlive/2009...
> D:Loading /usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb ...
> D:Using shipped
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/wget/wget.universal-darwin for
> wget (tested).
> D:Using shipped
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xzdec.universal-darwin for
> xzdec (tested).
> D:Using shipped
> /usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xz.universal-darwin for xz
> (not tested).
> ./runme.sh: done.
> $ tlmgr --help
> "/var/folders/Hc/Hc53KnQCGN8u9bLoMHnEqE+++TI/-Tmp-/xj7uvKsSh8" may be
> a binary file.  See it anyway?
> $
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Adam

did it work earlier?

does perldoc work on your MAC?

on my Linux system the man/help page is formatted via perldoc

/daleif