On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:14:22PM +0200, Andrew Fowler wrote: > I get strange display problems in xterms using commands like man and > info. Here's an example from #man man: > > sion, but [...] compile time. Also, by default, any > cat pages[...]ip. Each `global' manual page hierary > chy such a[...]n may have any directory as its cat > > Notice end line of line 2, the y from the previous line has been > repeated. Sometimes the repeat occurs over several lines. I also > noticed in doing the copy and paste into this mail that the extra y was > not there (instead, the pasted text contained a '-').
Perhaps your character set displays the Latin-1 soft hyphen character badly? Try 'man -7 man' to use the ASCII hyphen instead, and search down 'man man' for the -7 option to see a table of how various problematic characters display in either mode. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
