*- On 11 Oct, Fabrizio Polacco wrote about "Re: Man page problem: all hypens(-) are being replaced by <AD>" > On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 09:02:17PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 10, 1999 at 06:59:29PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > Recently I all my hypens(-) in my man pages have started to show up as >> > a highligted <AD> and not hypens. What would be causing this? The >> > relevant package versions are listed below. This is hybrid slink >> > system with lots of package compiled from potato sources. >> > >> > man-db 2.3.10-69n >> > groff 1.11a-7 >> > >> >> Perhaps you might try setting the LESSCHARSET environment variable, or >> the parallel for whatever pager you're using. Mine is "latin1". > > LESSCHARSET is set inside man program. > This was a bug (#46628) in version 69n . > Fixed in -69p . > Just apt-get it! >
Damn, can't believe I didn't check the bug list first! Thanks. Brian Servis -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mechanical Engineering | Never criticize anybody until you Purdue University | have walked a mile in their shoes, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | because by that time you will be a http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis | mile away and have their shoes.
