Keith, Thanks SO MUCH!!!!
I owe you a dinner and copious amounts of beer for that one!! :) > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Winston [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 2:18 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 {â€q|â€â€query} [selectâ€options] [queryâ€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 > -- > LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ > Sing blue silver > Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
