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Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 16:43:50 +1000 (EST)
From: "David O'Shea" <david AT ems DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
To: Tim Prince <tprince AT computer DOT org>
cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: man pages with weird characters
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Hmm.. presumably, then, if you go to a DOS prompt and hold Alt and type
173 on the numeric keypad, you'll get a hyphen, too?  If you run "CHCP"
from DOS, does it say "Active code page: 437"? (assuming W2K has such
antiquated commands!)

David

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Tim Prince wrote:

> The man pages have been behaving well for me with cygwin 1.1.0 on W2K.
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: bob 
>   To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com 
>   Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 7:38 PM
>   Subject: Re: man pages with weird characters
> 
> 
>   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!



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