Thanks for the pointer to man.conf. I tried:
PAGER=less man sudoers PAGER='less -isrRe' man sudoers
It's always the same thing.
But then, on a RH box - just from a completely random guess! - I changed this line in /etc/man.config:
# # Useful paths - note that COL should not be defined when # NROFF is defined as "groff -Tascii" or "groff -Tlatin1"; # not only is it superfluous, but it actually damages the output. # For use with utf-8, NROFF should be "nroff -mandoc" without -T option. # TROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc #NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc ### BEFORE NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -Tascii -mandoc ### AFTER JNROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj KNROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tkorean -mandoc EQN /usr/bin/geqn -Tps NEQN /usr/bin/geqn -Tlatin1 KNEQN /usr/bin/geqn -Tkorean TBL /usr/bin/gtbl # COL /usr/bin/col REFER /usr/bin/grefer PIC /usr/bin/gpic VGRIND GRAP PAGER /usr/bin/less -isr CAT /bin/cat
That did the trick.
Thus spake Igor Pechtchanski on 3/13/2005 1:47 PM:
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, overbored wrote:
Hi all, whenever I ssh into a remote host (I've only tried Linux boxes), man pages always get messed up. This has been an issue for me for a while, but it's not specific to Cygwin. I've tried the cmd, rxvt, and putty, all with similar results (only in putty, the corrupted characters only take up 1 character space, whereas in cmd and rxvt, they become two.) I tried setting the TERM on the remote host to vt100, vt102, rxvt, and xterm, all to no avail. All other apps (vim, emacs, screen, etc.) work just fine, but not man. I don't have a Linux box to try this on, but does anybody know what's causing this? Thanks in advacne.
Does "less" work properly? If not, make sure you have the right terminal settings (csh uses "term", not "TERM", BTW). If it does, man may use a special pager program that doesn't play well with the "cygwin" terminal type. Try running "PAGER='less -isrRe' man smth", and see if that helps. If so, check the man.conf file on the remote system. Igor
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