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Re: man prints binary characters to the screen.
From: |
Philip Rowlands |
Subject: |
Re: man prints binary characters to the screen. |
Date: |
Fri, 4 Feb 2005 18:35:30 +0000 (GMT) |
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Thomas Herter wrote:
>With this setting of TERM and with this Linux version:
>
> stnsp013:/home/therter> set | grep TERM
> TERM=vt100
> stnsp013:/home/therter> uname -a
> Linux stnsp013 2.4.21-15.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Apr 22 00:18:24 EDT 2004 i686 i686
> i386 GNU/Linux
What terminal or terminal emulator are you using? (xterm etc.)
>man formatted pages contain often strange binary characters.
>Like here, from 'man stty':
>
>[...
> * [-]ctlecho
> echo control characters in hat notation (â^câ)
>...]
man is not part of GNU coreutils, so a different list might be more
appropriate for this type of question.
Cheers,
Phil