On 1/12/2010 12:08 PM, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > After installing Cygwin 1.7.1, I noticed ugly man pages because > LANG=UTF-8 causes man pages to be formatted with U+2010 hyphens, > which aren't supported by Windows, so I took another's advice and > installed mintty, which seemed to work just fine until I tried to > use FTP or Telnet (the Windows versions). The mintty man page pro- > vides a reason why it might not work with certain interactive pro- > grams (see "LIMITATIONS"), which I presume includes these two > programs. > > In lieu of going back to LANG=C and cygwin.bat, wondering if there > is a recommended configuration that doesn't have these problems.
You could use Cygwin-based Telnet and FTP programs under Mintty. I'm personally fond of ncftp for FTP, and while I prefer to use SSH these days, the telnet program included in the inetutils package always worked for me back in the day. In general I try to avoid using Windows-native software under Cygwin whenever a Cygwin-based alternative is available. It's just easier that way for me. :-) -Jeremy -- 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
