Michael, Take a look at "man less" . The section on character sets and locale may be appropriate to your case since the man pages are displayed via the "less" program according to "man man".
I use RH 7.3 and I'm going to assume that 8.0 operates the same for this reply. If not, disregard this advice ...... Regards, Mike Klinke On Thursday 12 December 2002 18:47, Michael Tyrrell wrote: > I am running Red Hat 8.0 If I try to read the man pages I get the > garbage you see below. This problem is on all servers I install Red Hat > on. I have this problem no matter how I access the server Xwindows or > Telnet. I've also tried different terminal types. When I print the man > page it looks just as bad. > > Any help would be appreciated Thanks. > > NAME > lp â send requests to an LPRng print service > > SYNOPSIS > lp [ âA ] [ âB ] [ âc ] [ âG ] [ âm ] [ âp ] [ âs ] [ âw ] [ âd > dest ] > [ âf formâame [ âd any ] ] [ âH specialâandling ] > [ ân number ] [ âo option ] [ âP pageâist ] > [ âq priorityâevel ] [ âS characterâet [ âd any ] ] > [ âS printâheel [ ât title ] > [ âT contentâype [ âr ] ] [ ây modeâist ] > [ âX path ] [ âD debugâptions ] > [ file... ] -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
