>Actually, six bit characters were good enough to go to the moon.
Five bit Baudot codes on the ASR-33, my first "terminal" in 1969.
http://www.pdp8.net/asr33/asr33.shtml
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> "Ben" == Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:27:35 -0500
> -- Ben "7-bit characters were good enough to go to the moon" Scott
Actually, six bit characters were good enough to go to the moon.
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On my Fedora system...$ echo $LANGen_US.UTF-8$ echo $PAGER/usr/bin/lessThey display ok with bolding in a plain xterm.Strip escapes out:man | col -b | $PAGER
On 2/19/06, Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What's the fix for when Red Hat derived systems (in the currentcase, my Fedora Core 4 desk
On 2/19/06, Paul Lussier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What's the fix for when Red Hat derived systems (in the current
>> case, my Fedora Core 4 desktop) display crap in man pages?
>
> Fire up emacs, and either:
>
> M-x manRETRET
Just FYI, that didn't fix anything, either. Neener, neener.
On 2/19/06, Bill Mullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What's the fix for when Red Hat derived systems (in the current
>> case, my Fedora Core 4 desktop) display crap in man pages?
>
> [Suggestion of dumping FC for $OTHERDISTRO reconsidered and omitted.]
Avoiding controversy and debate? Come n
"Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What's the fix for when Red Hat derived systems (in the current
> case, my Fedora Core 4 desktop) display crap in man pages?
Fire up emacs, and either:
M-x manRETRET
or:
C-h i
to enter info mode, which the Gnu people seem to feel is superior the
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 19:45:19 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
> What's the fix for when Red Hat derived systems (in the current
> case, my Fedora Core 4 desktop) display crap in man pages?
[Suggestion of dumping FC for $OTHERDISTRO reconsidered and omitted.]
> This typically manifests as a highlighte
What's the fix for when Red Hat derived systems (in the current
case, my Fedora Core 4 desktop) display crap in man pages?
This typically manifests as a highlighted printed representation of
non-printable escape codes, and/or non-English characters, where one
would normally expect dashes, quot
