RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-03 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
March 2003 3:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:24 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > hmmm interesting. > do you get the bold (bright white) characters in man pages No, bold isn'

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-03 Thread Mike Vanecek
On Sun, 2 Mar 2003 20:05:48 -0500, Michael Fratoni wrote > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:55 pm, Mike Vanecek wrote: > > > > I got one that is even more confusing. RH 8.0, man man (for example), > > > underlines and hypens are fine. Use Gnome-termin

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:24 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > hmmm interesting. > do you get the bold (bright white) characters in man pages No, bold isn't available with the default font (latarcyrheb-sun16) > what is your LANG var se

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:18 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > ok well i downloaded all the updates on feb 27 or feb 28. since the > most recent update seems to be feb 24... i think i should hav

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 10:18 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > ok well i downloaded all the updates on feb 27 or feb 28. since the > most recent update seems to be feb 24... i think i should have them > all. do you know which one relates to this probl

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
hmmm interesting. do you get the bold (bright white) characters in man pages what is your LANG var set to, and what are the settings in your /etc/sysconfig/i18n file -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:43 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > btw... i use the console in text mode. i do not use X gnome or kde at > all... or very little. OK, ignore my screenshot then. However, I just tested, and console mode displayed the manu

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:36 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > thats a good idea... but my rh machine is on a dial up internet > connection. i do have access to the internet

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 2:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:33 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > well i looked at a few. >

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:36 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > thats a good idea... but my rh machine is on a dial up internet > connection. i do have access to the internet over a LAN so i use that > to download updates then transfer them to the rh m

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:33 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > well i looked at a few. > man wvdial > man perl > using M-x man > then typing the app name Seems to work fine here, screenshot of 'man wvdial' in emacs: http://www.tuxfan.homei

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
btw... i use the console in text mode. i do not use X gnome or kde at all... or very little. -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 1:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 09:17 pm, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 19:05, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > The good news is that in the Pheobe3 Beta, man pages finally display > > correctly

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
uptodate? -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 1:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:11 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: >

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
well i looked at a few. man wvdial man perl using M-x man then typing the app name -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:14 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > >Of course you do lose UTF-8 support. > > ok but is there a way to make things behave without loosing urf8 > support. in emacs, i get lots of octal char codes appearing in place of > the ri

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Bret Hughes
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 19:05, Michael Fratoni wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The good news is that in the Pheobe3 Beta, man pages finally display > correctly in a Konsole session. ;) IS all this a function of less not understanding UTF? Bret -- redhat-list maili

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 08:11 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > ok i will try that... seems like a more complete solution to just > export LANG="en_AU" > i have applied all the updates as of late feb this year... have there > been any more since then? h

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
to be utf8 . -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:21 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
ain... i.e. is there a page i can go to that lists the most recent updates as they have been added..? -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 11:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:55 pm, Mike Vanecek wrote: > > I got one that is even more confusing. RH 8.0, man man (for example), > > underlines and hypens are fine. Use Gnome-terminal to ssh to RH 7.1 > > system. Do a man man during that session. The u

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 06:21 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > ok thanks for that info... > > > . Line drawing characters in applications such as make menuconfig do > >not always appear correctly in certain locales. > how do i fix this. setting

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mike Vanecek
quot;en_AU.UTF-8" to with > export LANG="en_AU" > or even > export LANG="en" > and this solved the problem in emacs. [snip] > -Original Message- > From: Mike Vanecek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, 2 March 2003 12:22 PM > To:

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
hanks for help. mat. -Original Message- From: Michael Fratoni [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 3 March 2003 9:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 05:00 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 02 March 2003 05:00 pm, Mirabella, Mathew J wrote: > I noticed a problem like this. > when opening a man page inside emacs i get lots of > \323\323\345\xxx. and so on, where there should be - and -- > they seem to be octal characters. > i ch

RE: "???" in man pages

2003-03-02 Thread Mirabella, Mathew J
2003 12:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: "???" in man pages On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:11:24 -0500, Douglas Alan wrote > Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:23, Douglas Alan wrote: > > > > What does it me

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-03-01 Thread Mike Vanecek
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:11:24 -0500, Douglas Alan wrote > Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:23, Douglas Alan wrote: > > > > What does it mean if in all my man pages there is a "???" wherever there > > > should be a "-"? > > > > This is on Red Hat 8.0. > > >

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-02-28 Thread Douglas Alan
Gordon Messmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:23, Douglas Alan wrote: > > What does it mean if in all my man pages there is a "???" wherever there > > should be a "-"? > > This is on Red Hat 8.0. > It probably means that you're using a terminal emulator that's > incapable

Re: "???" in man pages

2003-02-20 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 16:23, Douglas Alan wrote: > What does it mean if in all my man pages there is a "???" wherever there > should be a "-"? > > This is on Red Hat 8.0. It probably means that you're using a terminal emulator that's incapable of, or not configured to display UTF-8 characters. W

"???" in man pages

2003-02-20 Thread Douglas Alan
What does it mean if in all my man pages there is a "???" wherever there should be a "-"? This is on Red Hat 8.0. |>oug -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list

Re: RH8.0 problems with garbage characters in man pages

2002-10-18 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 11:48, Nicholas Marsh wrote: > Anyone else have problems with garbage characters in man pages (see below)? Your terminal isn't configure to accept UTF-8 characters. What are you using? > Any idea how to rebuild the database? > I guess catman -w dosen't

RH8.0 problems with garbage characters in man pages

2002-10-13 Thread Nicholas Marsh
Anyone else have problems with garbage characters in man pages (see below)? Any idea how to rebuild the database? I guess catman -w dosen't work on linux. Thanks! ANACRON(8) Anacron Users’ Manual ANACRON(8) NAME anacron ⒠runs com

Re: rid myself of in man pages

1999-12-14 Thread Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 06:24:44PM -0500, Hal Burgiss wrote: > The latter has the added benefit of displaying colors if you do > something like: > > ls -l --color | less This can also be acieved by simply using "ls --color | less -r" (man is your friend... ;-) ) Thomas -- "Look

Re: rid myself of in man pages

1999-12-13 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 01:54:43PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote: > This is a tiny annoyance but I thought I might learn something. > Starting with RH 6 or 6.1, instead of hyphens in man pages I get a > black 4-character box containing . The man man page claims I > can set LESSCHARSET=l

rid myself of in man pages

1999-12-13 Thread Alan Mead
This is a tiny annoyance but I thought I might learn something. Starting with RH 6 or 6.1, instead of hyphens in man pages I get a black 4-character box containing . The man man page claims I can set LESSCHARSET=latin1 to fix this but it doesn't. Viewing the man page for iso_8859_1 see