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Package: groff? biff? man?
Version: groff 1.09, biff 5.3-4, man 1.5-1

chiark:~> TERM=dumb man biff | col -b | cat -v | tail -4
     The biff command appeared in 4.0BSD.

4th Berkeley Distribution       March 14, 1991                          1
37;1HK
chiark:~> tail -4 /usr/man/man1/biff.1
The
.Nm
command appeared in
.Bx 4.0 .
chiark:~>

The 37;1HK looks like a mangled vt100 escape sequence.  I'm not sure
how it got there, but it doesn't belong.

(My shell is bash, where  <VAR>=<value> <command>  executes <command>
with environment variable <VAR> set to <value>.)

Ian.

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iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) said:

> chiark:~> TERM=dumb man biff | col -b | cat -v | tail -4 [...]
> 37;1HK
> [...]
> The 37;1HK looks like a mangled vt100 escape sequence.  I'm not sure
> how it got there, but it doesn't belong.

It looks like a bug in /etc/termcap to me.

The first 0.93R5 /etc/termcap entry is "console|con80x25|dumb: [...]"

"dumb" doesn't belong here.  "dumb" should be considerably dumber
than "console".

IMHO, "con80x25" doesn't belong here either, but that's another story)

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