2009/12/26 Wes S : > Below is excerpt from man file on touch. Highlighted text is showing > strange characters when I use putty to ssh in. It was working fine > before the 1.7 upgrade. > > How do I fix this? > > Thanks, > > Wes > > > âd, ââdate=STRING > parse STRING and use it instead of current time > > âf (ignored) > > âm change only the modification time > > âr, ââreference=FILE > use this fileâs times instead of current time > > ât STAMP > use [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.ss] instead of current time > > ââtime=WORD > change the specified time: WORD is access, atime, or use: equivâ > alent to âa WORD is modify or mtime: equivalent to âm > > ââhelp display this help and exit
Looks like you've got a mismatch between Cygwin's character set and PuTTY's. Cygwin's default is UTF-8, whereas PuTTY's is ISO-8859-1. Change it under Window/Translation in PuTTY's options. (Or use mintty, which is a PuTTY derivative tailored for Cygwin, including 1.7's locale system.) Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
