Strange. Sounds like a terminal type setup problem to me. What are you using as a terminal? Konsole? And what does
$ echo $TERM return? If you switch TERM to, say, vt100 then try viewing man pages do you still have the problem? $ export TERM=vt100 $ man someprogram Or if you're using konsole, try launching a plain old xterm and see if you can view man pages correctly in that... $ /usr/bin/X11/xterm & Just some initial thoughts to be going on with. Will. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David & Kate Baird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: Garbled Man Pages in Red Hat Linux 8 > I've installed Red Hat Linux 8 on a Compaq PC from scratch. I use the KDE > desktop (I haven't got Gnome installed at all), and I've selected the > Windows Look and Feel using the desktop > > My problem is that most Man pages (e.g. man iptables) don't display properly > in a terminal window. Hyphens and possibly other characters display as > empty squares. This also happens if I run a terminal window using PuTTY via > SSL from a Windows client over the network. It doesn't happen with a > non-graphical interface at RunLevel 3, and it didn't happen at all before I > upgraded from RHL 7.2 to 8.0. > > I've applied all the available patches using Up2date, and the problem is > still there. I've also seen it on a completely separate system elsewhere, > again with RHL 8 on a PC server with a network terminal session from a > Windows PC running PuTTY. I don't know what desktop was in use on that > server. > > This seems a fairly basic problem, annoying rather than critical, but of > course you never know what it may conceal. Any solutions? > > David Baird > Manchester > UK -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
