Man pages messed up when viewed over SSH

[overbored]

Thanks for the pointer to man.conf. I tried:

PAGER=less man sudoers
PAGER='less -isrRe' man sudoers

It's always the same thing.

But then, on a RH box - just from a completely random guess! - I changed 
this line in /etc/man.config:

#
# Useful paths - note that COL should not be defined when
# NROFF is defined as "groff -Tascii" or "groff -Tlatin1";
# not only is it superfluous, but it actually damages the output.
# For use with utf-8, NROFF should be "nroff -mandoc" without -T option.
#
TROFF       /usr/bin/groff -Tps -mandoc
#NROFF      /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc ### BEFORE
NROFF       /usr/bin/nroff -c -Tascii -mandoc ### AFTER
JNROFF      /usr/bin/groff -Tnippon -mandocj
KNROFF      /usr/bin/groff -Tkorean -mandoc
EQN     /usr/bin/geqn -Tps
NEQN        /usr/bin/geqn -Tlatin1
KNEQN       /usr/bin/geqn -Tkorean
TBL     /usr/bin/gtbl
# COL       /usr/bin/col
REFER       /usr/bin/grefer
PIC     /usr/bin/gpic
VGRIND
GRAP
PAGER       /usr/bin/less -isr
CAT     /bin/cat

That did the trick.

Thus spake Igor Pechtchanski on 3/13/2005 1:47 PM:
> 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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