From:	John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com (John Wiersba)
Subject:	RE: Info and man/groff questions
17 Nov 1998 03:27:20 -0800 :
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To:	"'Vince Rice'" <vrice AT solidrocksystems DOT com>, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

I see that the man page for "man" says to export LESSCHARSET=latin1 if
you have the <AD> problem.  I tried it and it doesn't work (seems to
give the same upside-down exclamation mark as when you use "less -ris".

John Wiersba (john DOT wiersba AT medstat DOT com)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vince Rice [mailto:vrice AT solidrocksystems DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 2:04 AM
> To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: Info and man/groff questions
> 
> 
> Thanks to Mumit and Earnie for clarifying the filenames for 
> TCL and TK. So
> we're on to a couple of other "newbie" questions (but I have done some
> research before asking them <g>).
> 
> 1.  I found binaries for texinfo on Ted Jump's page so that I 
> could use all of
> those marvelous info files I downloaded from Cygnus <g>. 
> However, the <Delete>
> key doesn't work as described; the <Backspace> key brings up 
> a split screen
> with some help in it, the actual <Delete> keypad key doesn't 
> do anything, just
> beeps a few times, I presume because it's sending some escape 
> sequence that
> info
> isn't recognizing. I have TERM set to linux, and I have both 
> terminfo and
> termcap entries for linux.
> 
> 2.  I also found binaries for man on Michael Hirmke's (I 
> didn't go look that
> up, so I probably just butchered his name; sorry Michael) ftp 
> site. It also
> works great, except where there are supposed to be 
> end-of-line dashes I'm
> getting <AD>. For example, I get the following lines from 
> less' man page:
>    size, only the final screenful is displayed.  Warn<AD>
>    ing:  some  systems use ^V as a special literaliza<AD>
>    tion character.
> The <AD> characters are in blue on white, rather than the 
> white on blue of the
> rest of the text (in other words, it's reverse video <g>).
> 
> 3.  Doesn't bash read .bashrc on startup? I'm changing to my 
> home directory
> before invoking bash, but it's still not running it when it starts.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Vince
> 
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