Re: [1.7] Recent build failures (grap and nano) and strange characters in error log

2010-01-27 Thread Sven Köhler
Am 27.01.2010 18:33, schrieb Andy Koppe: > 2010/1/27 Fergus: >> Q2 I attach the error log (only 6 lines) when attempting "make" after a >> successful "./configure" of grap v.1.43. I am particularly surprised at and >> bothered by the intrusive strange chara

Re: [1.7] Recent build failures (grap and nano) and strange characters in error log

2010-01-27 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/27 Fergus: > Q2 I attach the error log (only 6 lines) when attempting "make" after a > successful "./configure" of grap v.1.43. I am particularly surprised at and > bothered by the intrusive strange characters. It's due to using rxvt with a UTF-8 l

Re: rxvt and strange characters from man

2010-01-07 Thread Lee Maschmeyer
Bash reads .bashrc in non-login shells and .bash_profile in login shells. What I do is put the stuff I want done in both cases in .bashrc and have .bash_profile source .bashrc. That's the way the default scripts work if I remember right. My solution was an alias. I use the console instead of a

Re: rxvt and strange characters from man

2010-01-07 Thread Mark J. Reed
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Wayne Erfling wrote: > Turns out the solution for me was to put the commands into .bash_profile > instead of .bashrc Bash reads .bashrc in non-login shells and .bash_profile in login shells. What I do is put the stuff I want done in both cases in .bashrc and have

Re: rxvt and strange characters from man

2010-01-07 Thread Wayne Erfling
Turns out the solution for me was to put the commands into .bash_profile instead of .bashrc LANG=en_US; export LANG "GMANE" wrote in message news:hi52s7$f1...@ger.gmane.org... I also see this behavior. It was suggested I create a .bashrc file (echo "LANG=en_US; export LANG" >> ~/.bashrc)

Re: rxvt and strange characters from man

2010-01-07 Thread GMANE
I also see this behavior. It was suggested I create a .bashrc file (echo "LANG=en_US; export LANG" >> ~/.bashrc), but this didn't work the next time I ran rxvt. Hopefully somebody will see us and help out. "tim richardson" wrote in message news:loom.20100104t115636-...@post.gmane.org... I

Re: rxvt and strange characters from man

2010-01-04 Thread tim richardson
thanks Andy. I've swapped to mintty -- 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

Re: rxvt and strange characters from man

2010-01-04 Thread Andy Koppe
2010/1/4 tim richardson: > I've setup rxvt, and take the default term settings. > This is the latest cygwin as of today, Vista host. > > when I do man x, I get odd characters: mis-interpreted control characters. > The default cygwin terminal works fine. > > for example, if I do > man man > > I get

rxvt and strange characters from man

2010-01-04 Thread tim richardson
I've setup rxvt, and take the default term settings. This is the latest cygwin as of today, Vista host. when I do man x, I get odd characters: mis-interpreted control characters. The default cygwin terminal works fine. for example, if I do man man I get this kind of stuff (the characters â (l

Re: [ncurses] strange characters with rxvt

2007-05-02 Thread Charles Wilson
Jeff Hawk wrote: From the rxvt website: rxvt is a colour vt102 terminal emulator intended as an xterm(1) replacement for users who do not require features such as Tektronix 4014 emulation and toolkit-style configurability. As a result, rxvt uses much less swap space. Therefore, rxvt is intended

Re: [ncurses] strange characters with rxvt

2007-05-02 Thread Brian Dessent
Jeff Hawk wrote: > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2005-10/msg01021.html > > I don't know what you're trying to tell me with this, but rxvt is an XTERM > replacement and is therefore intended to run under X. Go back and reread that thread. The rxvt packaged with Cygwin is dual mode. It w

Re: 1.5.18: get strange characters from rs232-port on a Windows XP machine

2005-08-08 Thread Brian Dessent
Moritz Herrmann wrote: > I'm working on a little c program to receive and save strings from the > serial-port into a local file on a Windows XP/2003 Server machine. > The program is working very well on a linux machine but if I try to run it > under windows I just get stupid characters like: If y

1.5.18: get strange characters from rs232-port on a Windows XP machine

2005-08-08 Thread Moritz Herrmann
Hi guys I'm working on a little c program to receive and save strings from the serial-port into a local file on a Windows XP/2003 Server machine. The program is working very well on a linux machine but if I try to run it under windows I just get stupid characters like: 0x11 ◄ 0x6 ♠ 0x7 0x1f ▼ 0

Re: Strange characters

2003-10-24 Thread Marcus Vinicius Ferreira
Hi Igor, Using alias to less did not work. I can see the difference what you suggested using color ls: $ /bin/ls -l --color | /bin/less -r compared to $ /bin/ls -l --color | /bin/less Defining $PAGER to less aliased or explicitly to "/bin/less -r" does not resolve either. I still ca

Re: Strange characters

2003-10-24 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Marcus Vinicius Ferreira wrote: > Hello, > > I was studying man pages more deeply in Cygwin and I can not solve a problem > involving strange (format ?) characters. As an example, here is a part of "man > zip". > > __

Strange characters

2003-10-24 Thread Marcus Vinicius Ferreira
Hello, I was studying man pages more deeply in Cygwin and I can not solve a problem involving strange (format ?) characters. As an example, here is a part of "man zip". __ zipnote [â^'hwL] [â^'b path] zipfile zipsplit [â^

RE: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

2003-01-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Original Message: - From: Quan Ding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:43:47 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window) If I remove the PS1 variable setting in /etc/profile, the problem goes away. But my prom

RE: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

2003-01-28 Thread Quan Ding
change > your > shell (/etc/passwd) to /bin/bash. > > Larry > > Original Message: > - > From: Quan Ding [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:42:16 -0800 (PST) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window) > > > A

Re: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

2003-01-28 Thread Elfyn McBratney
> After I started x-windows. There are strange extra > characters on the top of every window (login, xterm) > which look like the following: > \[\033]0;\w\007 > \022[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] It would appear that you are running sh (/bin/sh) with bash escapes in your PS1 environment variab

RE: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

2003-01-28 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
03 09:42:16 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window) After I started x-windows. There are strange extra characters on the top of every window (login, xterm) which look like the following: \[\033]0;\w\007 \022[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] These two

strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

2003-01-28 Thread Quan Ding
After I started x-windows. There are strange extra characters on the top of every window (login, xterm) which look like the following: \[\033]0;\w\007 \022[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] These two lines will show up again after each command I execute in the xterm window. They look like termina