> > In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc there are > > there little squares or cryptic <$%^> thingees. I guess that there's > > something I've missed somewhere... > > > > What have/haven't I done? > > On the assumption that you ran into some highlighting or underlining > markup, then you might try running your documents through a smart > pager that's able to do something reasonable with such things. > Try this: > export MANPAGER=/usr/bin/less > > (Of course, this only works if you have the 'less' package installed.) > > If it works for you, then you might want to put this line into your > .bashrc or whatever startup script you use. > > If the problem is that the documents you're looking at are gzip'd then > you'll want to read them with zless, by executing, e.g., > zless /usr/doc/man/README.gz
I don't think that's the problem, less is my PAGER, and I know about zcat. Most of the text is quite readable. The little squares are often where I'd expect an apostrophe to be, and some of the funny codes are <B7> for example. It looks like a bit of hex. John F.
