Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <20000511021645.13996.qmail@web114.yahoomail.com> Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 19:16:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Earnie Boyd Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Subject: Re: man pages with weird characters To: "David O'Shea" , cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii --- David O'Shea 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: __Cygwin: POSIX on Windows__ Cygwin Newbies: __Minimalist GNU for Windows__ Mingw32 List: Mingw Home: __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com