I was having the same problem. it works. thanks Keith..
Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Winston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:18 PM
Subject: Re: Fresh RH8.0 install has man page probs...
> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 13:59, Frazier, Ben wrote:
> > I've been beating my head on this for a couple of days now and haven't
got anywhere.
> >
> > I started off upgrading an RH7.3 box to RH8.0. The upgrade went to hell
in a hand basket so I formatted the drives and did a fresh RH8.0 install.
Now I've got everything back to be functional but my man pages aren't
working correctly. Yes I've uninstalled/reinstalled them.
> >
> > Doing a man on anything comes up with what looks like ANSI characters
that aren't properly formated. This happens when pulling up man pages at
the local console (text), in X, and when remotely shelled in to the box.
> >
> > Here's an example from man rpm:
> > rpm {⤐q|⤐⤐query} [select⤐options] [query⤐options]
> >
> > I know those characters are trying to bold certain letters. I've tried
installing different fonts, changing terminal settings, etc, and I'm at a
total loss.
> >
> > Does anybody have any suggestions?
>
> This has to do with the new default font and LANG settings used by Red
> Hat. It's in the release notes.
>
> The easiest fix I've found is to put these 2 lines at the _BOTTOM_ of
> your ~/.bashrc:
>
> LANG=c
> export LANG
>
> These lines have to go after the global functions that are called in
> .bashrc because that's where Red Hat sets LANG by default.
>
> Best Regards,
> Keith
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