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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 20:38:45 -0600

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Subject: Re: man pages with weird characters

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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 AT ems DOT uq DOT edu DOT 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,
>
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
>---
>  Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
>      __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__
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<FONT COLOR=3D#000000>Thank you, I've 'been living with it'. I was=
 starting to think of </FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000>upside-down=
 exclaimation points as standard punctuation for word=
 </FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000>breaks. Or maybe I just spend too=
 much time staring at MAN pages!</FONT><br>
<br>
<FONT COLOR=3D#000000></FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;--- David O'Shea=
 &lt;david AT ems DOT uq DOT edu DOT au&gt;&nbsp;wrote:</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;-8&lt;-</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The solution=
 I found was to edit /lib/man.conf and change the</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;lines:</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;NROFF&nbsp; &nbsp;=
 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; /usr/bin/groff=
 -Tlatin1 -mandoc</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;NEQN&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;=
 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; /usr/bin/eqn=
 -Tlatin1</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;to:</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;NROFF&nbsp; &nbsp;=
 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; /usr/bin/groff -Tascii=
 -mandoc</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;NEQN&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;=
 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; /usr/bin/eqn=
 -Tascii</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This stops=
 grotty from trying to use a special dash character</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;(0xAD); it will just use=
 a standard ASCII minus sign as found on</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;your</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;keyboard.</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This fixed=
 the problem for me at least - I don't know if </FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#800000>others</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;experience this problem=
 (maybe they do and can just ignore it!),</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;but</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;hopefully someone else=
 will find this useful. &nbsp;If this is standard</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;behaviour on all Windows=
 boxes, maybe cygwin could come like this</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;by</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;&nbsp;default?</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#800000>&gt;&gt;</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;Yes, and thanks for the=
 fix.</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;Cheers,</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;---</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;Earnie Boyd: &lt;<a=
 href=3D"mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>">mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT co=
m&gt</a>;</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__Cygwin:=
 POSIX on Windows__</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;Cygwin Newbies: &lt;<a=
 href=3D"http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html>">http:=
//www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html&gt</a>;</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT=
 COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;__Minimali=
st GNU for Windows__</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;&nbsp;Mingw32 List: &lt;<a=
 href=3D"http://www.egroups.com/group/mingw32/>">http://www.egroups=
com/group/mingw32/&gt</a>;</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mingw Home: &lt;<a=
 href=3D"http://www.mingw.org/>">http://www.mingw.org/&gt</a>;</FON=
T><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000080>&gt;</FONT><FONT COLOR=3D#000000><br>
</FONT><FONT=
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