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Bug 343421

Summary:

[dstore] Man page was not displayed properly in the shell

Product:

[Tools] Target Management

Reporter:

Samuel Wu <samuelwu>

Component:

RSE

Assignee:

David McKnight <dmcknigh>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Martin Oberhuber <mober.at+eclipse>

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

dmcknigh

Version:

unspecified

Target Milestone:

3.3 M7

Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Whiteboard:

Bug Depends on:

Bug Blocks:

344884

Attachments:

Description	Flags
patch to handle \b characters in shell	none

Description Samuel Wu

2011-04-20 10:34:13 EDT

Build Identifier: RSE 3.2.2 maintenance

When displaying a man page in remote shell, there were a lot of control characters which made the page unreadable.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a remote shell
2. Run the command man ls

Comment 1 Samuel Wu

2011-04-20 10:36:37 EDT

This seems to be a problem with the dstore connection. The man page from the shell on an SSH only connection can be displayed properly.

Comment 2 David McKnight

2011-04-20 13:46:35 EDT

For shell output with control characters, there are known limitations with the dstore shell support.  For such formatted output, you'll have more success with the terminal.

Comment 3 Samuel Wu

2011-04-20 16:54:47 EDT

Dave,
Is it possible to skip those control characters? Currently it makes the page unreadable.

Comment 4 David McKnight

2011-05-05 11:50:19 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> Dave,
> Is it possible to skip those control characters? Currently it makes the page
> unreadable.

I can skip the \b control characters.

Comment 5 David McKnight

2011-05-05 11:52:00 EDT

Created attachment 194845 [details]
patch to handle \b characters in shell

I've tried this out on intel linux and it seems to help.  Can you try this patch with z/os?

Comment 6 Samuel Wu

2011-05-05 13:52:02 EDT

Hi Dave,
The patch works fine. Thanks a lot. Can you port it back to 3.2.x?

Comment 7 David McKnight

2011-05-05 14:58:51 EDT

(In reply to comment #6)
> Hi Dave,
> The patch works fine. Thanks a lot. Can you port it back to 3.2.x?

Okay, I've committed the fix to cvs and opened bug 344884 for the backport.