Gordon,

I followed Keith Winston's recommendation of setting the LANG variable
and the man pages work for me.

FWIW, I didn't migrate anything for my user settings to the new install.
But I will try and remove/reinstall the UTF-8 locale and see if that
clears up the issue as well.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gordon Messmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 2:50 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Fresh RH8.0 install has man page probs...
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 10:59, Frazier, Ben wrote:
> > 
> > ... 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.
> 
> Are you using all of the default settings, or did you copy 
> your home directory back onto the new machine?
> 
> The UTF-8 locale works "out of the box", but may break if you 
> set your LANG variables in old bashrc or bash_profile files.  
> Try reading man pages as a new user, with no old configs.
> 



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