Goofy Man Pages in Redhat 8.0

Goofy Man Pages in Redhat 8.0

[John J. Boyer]

Hello,

When I try to use man in Redhat8.0, the man pages are scrambled. Only a 
few lines show, and instead of a colon and cursor at the bottom, the 
cursor is in the middle of a line. Info produces the same results. What 
causes this, and how can it be fixed?

Thanks.
John


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Re: Goofy Man Pages in Redhat 8.0

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> When I try to use man in Redhat8.0, the man pages are scrambled. Only a 
> few lines show, and instead of a colon and cursor at the bottom, the 
> cursor is in the middle of a line. Info produces the same results. What 
> causes this, and how can it be fixed?

Are you using "screen"?  Does it produce the same without it?


Nicolas

Re: Goofy Man Pages in Redhat 8.0

[Darrell Shandrow]

Hi John,

Are you operating from the console of the Linux box itself, or are you
remotely connected using either ssh or telnet?  If the latter is true, have
you made any recent configuration changes to your terminal program?  Is this
a new RH 8 install, or are these new problems suddenly appearing on an
existing install?

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Subject: Goofy Man Pages in Redhat 8.0


> Hello,
>
> When I try to use man in Redhat8.0, the man pages are scrambled. Only a
> few lines show, and instead of a colon and cursor at the bottom, the
> cursor is in the middle of a line. Info produces the same results. What
> causes this, and how can it be fixed?
>
> Thanks.
> John
>
>
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Re: Goofy Man Pages in Redhat 8.0

[John J. Boyer]

Nicolas,

Yes, I am using screen. When I tried man without screen it behaved 
properly. However, I could use it with screen on RH7.1. This is an 
acceptable workaround, but is it necessary?

Thanks,
John
 On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Nicolas 
Pitre wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > When I try to use man in Redhat8.0, the man pages are scrambled. Only a 
> > few lines show, and instead of a colon and cursor at the bottom, the 
> > cursor is in the middle of a line. Info produces the same results. What 
> > causes this, and how can it be fixed?
> 
> Are you using "screen"?  Does it produce the same without it?
> 
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Goofy Man Pages in Redhat 8.0

[Dave]

    Hi,
    In your /etc/man.config on the nroff line add:
-Tlatin1
save the file, that should fix it.
Dave.

Re: Goofy Man Pages in Redhat 8.0

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Nicolas,
> 
> Yes, I am using screen. When I tried man without screen it behaved 
> properly. However, I could use it with screen on RH7.1. This is an 
> acceptable workaround, but is it necessary?

No, that's certainly a bug or misconfiguration.

The most likely cause for that is a mismatched number of rows known within 
the "screen" environment, or a wrong terminal emulation.

You may try

	stty -a

from within a "screen" window and see if the number of rows matches the 
physical screen you have.


Nicolas

Re: Goofy Man Pages in Redhat 8.0

[John J. Boyer]

Dave,

That did it. Thanks!

John

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Dave wrote:

>     Hi,
>     In your /etc/man.config on the nroff line add:
> -Tlatin1
> save the file, that should fix it.
> Dave.
> 
> 
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