try switching terminal there is a settings in puTTY and there is also a environment variable $TERM
try, xterm, linux, vt100, vt220 if you see any change On Wednesday 26 November 2003 09:20, Evan Brown wrote: > I'm using putty to ssh into my linux box here at work, all the - > characters are weird a's if I use the man pages, when I type them they are > fine, how do I fix this? It makes reading man pages more difficult then it > needs to be. > > Evan Brown > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca

