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Thank you, I've 'been living with it'. I was starting to think of upside-down exclaimation points as standard punctuation for word breaks. Or maybe I just spend too much time staring at MAN pages! >--- David O'Shea <david@ems.uq.edu.au> wrote: >-8<- >> >> The solution I found was to edit /lib/man.conf and change the >> lines: >> >> NROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tlatin1 -mandoc >> NEQN /usr/bin/eqn -Tlatin1 >> >> to: >> >> NROFF /usr/bin/groff -Tascii -mandoc >> NEQN /usr/bin/eqn -Tascii >> >> This stops grotty from trying to use a special dash character >> (0xAD); it will just use a standard ASCII minus sign as found on >>your >> keyboard. >> >> This fixed the problem for me at least - I don't know if others >> experience this problem (maybe they do and can just ignore it!), >>but >> hopefully someone else will find this useful. If this is standard >> behaviour on all Windows boxes, maybe cygwin could come like this >>by >> default? >> > >Yes, and thanks for the fix. > >Cheers, > >===== >--- > Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com> > __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ >Cygwin Newbies: <http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html> > __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ > Mingw32 List: <http://www.egroupscom/group/mingw32/> > Mingw Home: <http://www.mingw.org/> > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. >http://im.yahoo.com/ > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com |
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