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Re: man pages with weird characters


The man pages have been behaving well for me with cygwin 1.1.0 on W2K.
----- Original Message -----
From: bob
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: man pages with weird characters

Thank you, I've 'been living with it'. I was starting to think of upside-down exclaimation points as standard punctuation for word breaks. Or maybe I just spend too much time staring at MAN pages!



>--- David O'Shea <david@ems.uq.edu.au> wrote:
>-8<-
>>
>>     The solution I found was to edit /lib/man.conf and change the
>> lines:
>>
>> NROFF                /usr/bin/groff -Tlatin1 -mandoc
>> NEQN                /usr/bin/eqn -Tlatin1
>>
>> to:
>>
>> NROFF                /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc
>> NEQN                /usr/bin/eqn -Tascii
>>
>>     This stops grotty from trying to use a special dash character
>> (0xAD); it will just use a standard ASCII minus sign as found on
>>your
>> keyboard.
>>
>>     This fixed the problem for me at least - I don't know if others
>> experience this problem (maybe they do and can just ignore it!),
>>but
>> hopefully someone else will find this useful.  If this is standard
>> behaviour on all Windows boxes, maybe cygwin could come like this
>>by
>> default?
>>
>
>Yes, and thanks for the fix.
>
>Cheers,
>
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