Re: bin/50968: apropos spits "$<2>" all over my screen

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR bin/50968; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/50968: apropos spits "$<2>" all over my screen
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:45:08 -0400

 On Mar 14,  1:45am, tls%panix.com@localhost (tls%panix.com@localhost) wrote:
 -- Subject: bin/50968: apropos spits "$<2>" all over my screen
 
 | 	With $TERM set to "vt100" or "vt102" the apropos program produces
 | 	unreadable output that is littered with the string "$<2>" at every
 | 	change in text attribute.
 | 
 | 	It works fine with $TERM set to xterm or ansi.
 
 This is the delay padding character and the problem should be fixed in HEAD.
 
 christos