Void's Forums

i was just looking on linuxgods.com for some info regarding slackware packages and found that this site also has online man pages (like void's) i just though i would mention them (here they are) because it's always good to know more than one resource just in case, and also i thought maybe one would have entries the other doesn't have et c.

the thing i liked about that site though is their [url=http://kreiger.linuxgods.com/cgi-bin/whataloadofrubbish[/url]custom 404 page![/url]

Here's yet another one
http://man.linuxquestions.org/
though I tend to use the man pages from a terminal the most, except when they are mostly unreadble (because of a stupid font thing I don't know how to fix), then I use Void Main's

Ice9 wrote:I tend to use the man pages from a terminal the most, except when they are mostly unreadble (because of a stupid font thing I don't know how to fix), then I use Void Main's

I had that problem on RH8 when viewing man pages in Konsole (but not in gnome-terminal). The problem was with the UTF8 configuration. This can be fixed by modifying your "LANG" environment variable. In Red Hat you would do this in the "/etc/sysconfig/i18n" file. I don't remember what the default setting was in RH8 but changing LANG to "en_US" in my case solved the problem (set it to whatever your LANG should be for your country/language).

I believe I have seen where Mandrake also had this problem at one point. This doesn't seem to be a problem in RH9 so I suspect it was just a problem with Konsole not being UTF8 ready. In RH9 my LANG is set to "en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en" and everything works very nicely.

I'll try that but I don't know if we're talking about the same thing.

The problem I sometimes have when viewing man pages (happens only with man pages) is that every dash is replaced by a square, which makes everything really hard to read.
I can post a screenshot later today if you want.

i used to have that problem a lot in RH8 too, i think it happened both in gnome-terminal and konsole, and possibly even rxvt but that is all from (shaky) memory.

Ok, I'm home finally.
This was what a man page in a terminal would look like before
man page with squares

/etc/sysconfig/i18n looked like this

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LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"


I changed it to

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LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US.UTF-8:en_US:en"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"


And now it looks like this

So everything is cool now, it wasn't a vital problem but it was annoying enough, thanks Void Main.