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Subject:	Re: rxvt and strange characters from man
Date:	Thu, 7 Jan 2010 13:47:45 -0500
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>Bash reads .bashrc in non-login shells and .bash_profile in login
>shells.  What I do is put the stuff I want done in both cases in
>.bashrc and have .bash_profile source .bashrc.

That's the way the default scripts work if I remember right. My solution was 
an alias. I use the console instead of a terminal and the following works 
for me:

alias man="LANG=c man"

So far I haven't discovered any flaws. It even works (after a whole 1 tests! 
:-) in woman.

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Lee Maschmeyer
Wayne State University Computing Center
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Detroit MI 48202
USA 


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