Hi All, I've found a problem caused by the setting of the LANG environment variable with Red Hat Linux 8.0.
With RHL 8.0 the LANG variable gets set to "en_GB.UTF-8" whereas previously (with 7.3) it used to get set to "en_GB.iso885915". The new setting with RHL 8.0 causes two problems, one more severe than the other. Firstly if you telnet into a system from another system all the man pages get "corrupted". Secondly (this is the severe one) grep performs about 8 times slower than it used to! If you regularly scan large files as I do this can be very painful. Both can be fixed by setting the language back to "en_GB.iso885915" by editing /etc/sysconfig/i18n. If you want to leave it set to the UTF version you can downgrade to grep 2.4.2 and that works OK - but I wonder what other things might be affected by the problem. If anyone out there knows why this happens or a better way to fix it then please let me know. Regards, Brian Mattey -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
