Saturday, 8 June 2013

Man displaying groff control characters

Man displaying groff control characters

Man is displaying groff control characters after I compiled a later version of groff. For example, when I try to view groff's man page:
GROFF(1)                    General Commands Manual                   GROFF(1)



ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
       groff - front-end for the groff document formatting system

ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
       ESC[1mgroff ESC[22m[ESC[1m-abcegijklpstzCEGNRSUVXZESC[22m] [ESC[1m-d ESC[4mESC[22mcsESC[24m] [ESC[1m-D
ESC[4mESC[22margESC[24m] [ESC[1m-f ESC[4mESC[22mfamESC[24m] [ESC[1m-F ESC[4mESC[22mdirESC[24m]
             [ESC[1m-I ESC[4mESC[22mdirESC[24m] [ESC[1m-K ESC[4mESC[22margESC[24m] [ESC[1m-L ESC[4mESC[22marg
ESC[24m] [ESC[1m-m ESC[4mESC[22mnameESC[24m] [ESC[1m-M ESC[4mESC[22mdirESC[24m] [ESC[1m-n ESC[4mESC[22mnumESC[24m] [ESC[1m-o ESC[4mESC[22mlistESC[24m]
             [ESC[1m-P ESC[4mESC[22margESC[24m] [ESC[1m-r ESC[4mESC[22mcnESC[24m] [ESC[1m-T ESC[4mESC[22mdevESC[24m] [ESC[1m-w ESC[4mESC[22mnameESC[24m] [ESC[1m-W ESC[4mESC[22mnameESC[24m] [ESC[4mfileESC[24m ...]
       ESC[1mgroff -h ESC[22m| ESC[1m--helpESC[0m
       ESC[1mgroff -v ESC[22m| ESC[1m--version ESC[22m[ESC[4moptionESC[24m ...]

ESC[1mDESCRIPTIONESC[0m
       This  document  describes the ESC[1mgroff ESC[22mprogram, the main front-end for the
       ESC[4mgroffESC[24m document formatting system.  The ESC[4mgroffESC[24m program and macro suite is
       the implementation of a ESC[1mroffESC[22m(7) system within the free software collec-
       tion GNU http://www.gnu.org.  The ESC[4mgroffESC[24m system has  all  features  of
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