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Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 19:16:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: man pages with weird characters
To: "David O'Shea" <david AT ems DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
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--- 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,

=====
---
   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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