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Ok, this is going to sound very odd, but I think I am having a problem with the little Putty program.
Here is the problem: When I fire up putty and log in remotely to any of my Linux servers, then attempt to read man pages, the man pages are difficult to read.
I'm not sure if this will turn out, but here goes:
‐‐nodownload
But where the -- is, its a little box in front of the option. Thus, it is a pain in the butt to try and read the man pages.
Any idea on what the problem may be? Something I need to change in putty?
Distribution: Red Hat 8.0, Slackware 8.1, Knoppix 3.7, Lunar 1.3, Sorcerer
Posts: 771
Rep:
Your i18n looks fine.
So the box characters are the only thing that's weird. Did you say this is the case across multiple servers? That makes it sound like something is wrong on the PuTTY end of things. The next thing I would try changing would be the incoming charset under putty and see if that makes a difference.
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