Re: Man pages messed up when viewed over SSH

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, overbored wrote:

> Hi all, whenever I ssh into a remote host (I've only tried Linux boxes),
> man pages always get messed up. This has been an issue for me for a
> while, but it's not specific to Cygwin. I've tried the cmd, rxvt, and
> putty, all with similar results (only in putty, the corrupted characters
> only take up 1 character space, whereas in cmd and rxvt, they become
> two.) I tried setting the TERM on the remote host to vt100, vt102, rxvt,
> and xterm, all to no avail. All other apps (vim, emacs, screen, etc.)
> work just fine, but not man. I don't have a Linux box to try this on,
> but does anybody know what's causing this? Thanks in advacne.

Does "less" work properly?  If not, make sure you have the right terminal
settings (csh uses "term", not "TERM", BTW).  If it does, man may use a
special pager program that doesn't play well with the "cygwin" terminal
type.  Try running "PAGER='less -isrRe' man smth", and see if that helps.
If so, check the man.conf file on the remote system.
	Igor
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