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 รข (l