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
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