The man pages have been behaving well for me with
cygwin 1.1.0 on W2K.
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Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 7:38
PM
Subject: Re: man pages with weird
characters
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:
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