see the post about setting LANG=c, also if you have konqueror on you can
put man:/command where command is the command you want and konqueror
will display it nicely.
dave.
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 18:59, Frazier, Ben wrote:
> I've been beating my head on this for a couple of days now and haven't got anywhere.
>
> I started off upgrading an RH7.3 box to RH8.0. The upgrade went to hell in a hand
>basket so I formatted the drives and did a fresh RH8.0 install. Now I've got
>everything back to be functional but my man pages aren't working correctly. Yes I've
>uninstalled/reinstalled them.
>
> Doing a man on anything comes up with what looks like ANSI characters that aren't
>properly formated. This happens when pulling up man pages at the local console
>(text), in X, and when remotely shelled in to the box.
>
> Here's an example from man rpm:
> rpm {â€q|â€â€query} [selectâ€options] [queryâ€options]
>
> I know those characters are trying to bold certain letters. I've tried installing
>different fonts, changing terminal settings, etc, and I'm at a total loss.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ben
>
>
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