Hi I am a newbie and I installed a headless server next to my Windows 2K computer in order to learn better about Linux. My problem is as follows. Everytime that I login to the server and execute "man" to look up the manual pages, I get some garbage characters on the screen. I have tried accessing my server using the following methods: 1. Cygwin environment using SSH 2. telnet from cmd.exe If I do "man bash" from the Cygwin shell inside my Win2K system, I get the following after NAME: bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell If I conect to my headless server using ssh from the cygwin environment, I get the following: bash �^' GNU Bourne�??Again SHell If I do it by using telnet (the plain vanilla from windows2k) I get the following: bash ?�� GNU Bourne?��Again SHell And like those lines, there are several others with strange characters in between. I know that for some reason, ssh and telenet are not interpreting some escape sequence character. My question is the following. 1. How and Where can I find in Linux the format definition for the output, including what type of escape character they are using when somebody connects from outside the server. I am using redhat 8.0 2. what commands, if any do I have availabel under cygwin or ssh to properly interpret such an input? 3. what commands if any do I have available under Windows2k telnet to properly interpret sush an input? thanks, I apreciate whatever help or pointers for info you might provide me with. Javier
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what is windows ? "Pepebuho" <p1e2p3e4b5u6h7o8@pananet.com> wrote in message news:bdbp89091f@enews4.newsguy.com... > Hi > I am a newbie and I installed a headless server next to my Windows 2K > computer in order to learn better about Linux. > > My problem is as follows. Everytime that I login to the server and execute > "man" to look up the manual pages, I get some garbage characters on the > screen. > I have tried accessing my server using the following methods: > > 1. Cygwin environment using SSH > 2. telnet from cmd.exe > > If I do "man bash" from the Cygwin shell inside my Win2K system, I get the > following after NAME: > > bash - GNU Bourne-Again SHell > > If I conect to my headless server using ssh from the cygwin environment, I > get the following: > > bash �^' GNU Bourne�??Again SHell > > If I do it by using telnet (the plain vanilla from windows2k) I get the > following: > > bash ?�� GNU Bourne?��Again SHell > > > And like those lines, there are several others with strange characters in > between. > > > I know that for some reason, ssh and telenet are not interpreting some > escape sequence character. My question is the following. > > 1. How and Where can I find in Linux the format definition for the output, > including what type of escape character they are using when somebody > connects from outside the server. I am using redhat 8.0 > > 2. what commands, if any do I have availabel under cygwin or ssh to properly > interpret such an input? > > 3. what commands if any do I have available under Windows2k telnet to > properly interpret sush an input? > > thanks, I apreciate whatever help or pointers for info you might provide me > with. > > Javier > > >
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Tmio Makinen wrote: > what is windows ? "X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106" ... you should know Mr Top-poster. > "Pepebuho" <p1e2p3e4b5u6h7o8@pananet.com> wrote in message > news:bdbp89091f@enews4.newsguy.com... >> Hi >> I am a newbie and I installed a headless server next to my Windows 2K >> computer in order to learn better about Linux. good good >> My problem is as follows. Everytime that I login to the server and >> execute "man" to look up the manual pages, I get some garbage characters >> on the screen. >> 1. How and Where can I find in Linux the format definition for the >> output, including what type of escape character they are using when >> somebody connects from outside the server. I am using redhat 8.0 >> /usr/lib/man.conf controls how man pages are rendered (look for the lines on groff/troff), but it would probably be easier to get a different SSH client for Windows - putty (which is free) would be a good try. Also, if you're just after a one-line description of what a command does, you might like to investigate apropos or whatis. Cheers, Pete
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