The more(1) pager produces correct results when 8-bit characters are
send to the screen. The less(1) pager fails to do so with its
default configuration: I used "setenv LESSCHARSET latin1" to get
around this problem.
Ioannis Tambouras
[EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida
Signed pgp
A few manpages are formatted in a style that less doesn't completely
clean up. Most seems to handle these a little better. Most detects and
unzips gzip'd documents automatically.
Bob
At 05:50 PM 3/2/97 -0500, "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In a lot of man pages, and som
|"> 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 lo
Raja R Harinath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> You're reading an ISO-8859-1 (8-bit) document with `less' in it's 7-bit
> mode.
[snip]
> In either case, your display has to support 8-bit characters, and show
> them meaningfully. `xterm' can handl
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, John Foster wrote:
> 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 for
> example. It looks like a bit of hex.
> 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 for
> example. It looks like a bit of hex.
Try adding export LESSCHARSET='lati
It might have to do with striping the 8th bit of a byte before it
gets displayed on the terminal. For man, try the -7 option .
That might not help you at all, but since the other responses
from the list has not fix your problem yet, that is what I would
investigate until a better suggestion ar
John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc
>>> there are there little squares or cryptic <$%^> thingees. I guess
>>> that there's something I've missed somewhere...
>>>
>>> What have/haven't I done?
>>
>> On the assumption that you
> > In a lot of man pages, and some of the documentation in /usr/doc there are
> > there little squares or cryptic <$%^> 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
> 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
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