On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 06:24:49PM +1100, Eduard Westra wrote:

> >> If I look in man pages, then with mrxvt I get funny characters instead of 
> >> what there should be. See attached image. Noticably, these "faults" happen 
> >> with quotes (single & double), hyphens, asterisks. I'm using the SVN 
> >> version, configured with
> >> "./bootstrap.sh"
> >> "./configure --enable-everything --disable-debug --with-term=xterm"
> >> "make"
> >> "sudo make install"
> > 
> > Hmm. Try converting the man page to text and seeing what these
> > characters are:
> > 
> >     man -W ls | head -n 1 | groff -mman -Tascii -P -cbu > /tmp/ls.txt
> > 
> > Then Vim the file and see if the characters are anything "funny".
> I get a 66 bytes long file which only contains newlines characters (66 
> to be precise)...

Hmm. My bad. Try this:

    1. Find the ls man file (man -W ls)

    2. gunzip/bunzip it, and pipe it to

            groff -mman -Tascii -P -cbu > /tmp/ls.txt

Then Vim /tmp/ls.txt.

GI

-- 
Application has reported a 'Not My Fault' in module KRNL.EXE in line
0200:103F

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