On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 01:06:43PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> If less/more is going to grok these escape sequences it ought to
> send the terminal the correct sequence for the actual terminal.

I guess it does the right thing,
/usr/pkg/bin/nroff -mandoc /some/random/man/page.1 | less -R
works fine for me.

> Also what does 'col -b' do with them?  I've been known to persuade
> man to use 'vi' as a pager (I hate less, more and pg for various
> reasons).

Just install the groff package and try it :)
 Thomas