[NTLUG:Discuss] terminfo question

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 21:21, Chris Cox wrote:
> Carl Haddick wrote:
> > Howdy, all,
> > 
> > I've always been unclear what applications termcap affects, and what
> > applications terminfo affects in Linux, and I have a problem I'd like to
> > address.
> > 
> > My last few Linux installations have been RH 8, and on both SVGA and
> > laptop displays the colored dashes in man pages aren't visible in X.
> > 
> > Curiously, it doesn't seem to matter what value I export for $TERM.
> > 
> > Clues gratefully accepted here! (I already tried Google... :-)
> 
> I believe this has to do with the LANG issue with RH 8.0... I guess
> it's not so much an "issue" as a feature that is a bit before its
> time.  Try the following and see:
> 
> $ LANG=C man <your-favorite-command>
> 
> and see if the colored dashes show up.
> 
> If not, then it's a different issue... give it a try though.

I changed my /etc/sysconfig/i18n file to be:
LANG="en_US"
SUPPORTED="en_US:en"
SYSFONT="latarcyrheb-sun16"
and that fixed some 'font' issues. I did this to get 
Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0.5/6 to run. It also seemed to 
clean up the man page garbage that I was seeing ( and 
didn't really care about ) 

jack