On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 12:31, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>   i already know that setting LANG=C will get me man pages in
> an xterm that show the hyphens.  the question is: is this the
> acceptable hack for this, and where is the most appropriate
> place for this setting?
> 
>   /etc/profile so everyone gets it?
>   /etc/profile.d/???.sh
>   my personal .bash_profile to minimize the effect on anything else?
> 
> just curious about what's the best/safest approach for this.  will
> changing LANG have any adverse effects on anything else?
> 

I just added an alias in my ~/.bashrc. If you want it for all users
place it in /etc/bashrc.

alias man='env LANG=C man'

Works for me. ;-)

Regards,
        Jim H

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