funny characters on man pages

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 05:27:38PM -0700, Phil Glatz wrote:
> I have a redhat 7.2 system that is displaying funny characters when 
> displaying man pages on a remote terminal - i.e., with 'man man', I see 
> things like:
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        man  [â’acdfFhkKtwW]  [‐‐path]  [â’m system] [â’p string] [â’C 
> config_file]
>        [â’M pathlist] [â’P pager] [â’S section_list] [section] name ...
> 
> I'm using Secure CRT with VT-100 emulation to access the system remotely.
> 
> I don't have this problem from the system console.
> 
> My /etc/man.config is the same as one as I have on a redhat 8 system, which 
> doesn't have this problem.
> 
> thanks

This is usually characteristic of later systems, but see

http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#funny_chars

Cheers,
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Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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