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Displaying man pages

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by nschulz 1 view

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I am having a problem displaying man pages when I telnet or slogin to all my Red Hat 8.0 Linux boxes. On the console the man pages look fine but I don't always have direct access to it.

I have tried Windows telnet, Hummingbird telent, F-Secure SSH Client and SecureCRT. With all of them I see control characters wherever dashes are supposed to be when displaying man pages. The control characters are different for different clients. This makes reading the man pages very difficult.

I have tried setting the TERM=ansi or TERM-xterm but this has not helped. Any ideas

Thanks Norm

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by frank

I only know one good terminal for Windows, Its loaded with nice features like single sign-in and much more goodies a regular user will love... perfect cut and paste integration, WORKING keybord setting for all reasonable servers and keyboards, even foreign ones (like my german one)... a sure "must have"... no i am not afiliated with the author at all, I just like the program!
Why am I writing all that crab? Because I had similar problems till i found PuTTY....
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