Hi again,
I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like keywords are blank. Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in putty or is there something with Centos man pages that cause this to happen?
Thanks again,
Sam
Sam,
Are you using putty from a microsoft desktop or a linux desktop? If you are using a linux desktop try using konsole or terminal for the connection and see if you get the same symptoms.
We use putty for all of our microsoft connections and konsole for all of our linux connections and I have never noticed the problem you are describing.
Greg Ennis
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:28 -04f \00, Sam Drinkard wrote:
Hi again,
I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, orperhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like keywords are blank. Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in putty or is there something with Centos man pages that cause this to happen?
Thanks again,
Sam _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Sam,
Are you using putty from a microsoft desktop or a linux desktop? If you are using a linux desktop try using konsole or terminal for the connection and see if you get the same symptoms.
We use putty for all of our microsoft connections and konsole for all of our linux connections and I have never noticed the problem you are describing.
Greg Ennis
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:28 -04f \00, Sam Drinkard wrote:
Hi again,
I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, orperhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like keywords are blank. Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in putty or is there something with Centos man pages that cause this to happen?
Thanks again,
Sam _______________________________________________
This machine has XP on it, but I can use the other Centos machine if it's up and running which is not all the time. The man pages display correctly when viewing from the other machine using just a normal terminal window. It's almost like putty can't display the bolded characters, or tries to display them maybe in the same color as the background. I'll check that on putty to make sure I don't intentionally shoot my foot off!
Sam
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
Sam,
Are you using putty from a microsoft desktop or a linux desktop? If you are using a linux desktop try using konsole or terminal for the connection and see if you get the same symptoms.
We use putty for all of our microsoft connections and konsole for all of our linux connections and I have never noticed the problem you are describing.
Greg Ennis
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:28 -04f \00, Sam Drinkard wrote:
Hi again,
I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, orperhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like keywords are blank. Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in putty or is there something with Centos man pages that cause this to happen?
Thanks again,
Sam _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list
Looks like I shot myself in the foot after all. I just checked the bold foreground color, and sure enough, it was the same as the background color. Changed that to red, and it works as advertized now. Sorry for the unnecessary postings. Should have checked there first !
Sam
Sam Drinkard wrote:
Looks like I shot myself in the foot after all. I just checked the bold foreground color, and sure enough, it was the same as the background color. Changed that to red, and it works as advertized now. Sorry for the unnecessary postings. Should have checked there first !
If you want something much nicer, install freenx on the server and connect with the NX client that you can download (for windows/mac/linux) from http://www.nomachine.com. This gives you a complete GUI desktop (in a local window) with good performance that you can suspend and reconnect.
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Sam Drinkard wrote:
Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:28 -04f \00, Sam Drinkard wrote:
I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, orperhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like keywords are blank. Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in putty or is there something with Centos man pages that cause this to happen?
Are you using putty from a microsoft desktop or a linux desktop? If you are using a linux desktop try using konsole or terminal for the connection and see if you get the same symptoms.
Looks like I shot myself in the foot after all. I just checked the bold foreground color, and sure enough, it was the same as the background color. Changed that to red, and it works as advertized now. Sorry for the unnecessary postings. Should have checked there first !
You may be interested in a blog post of mine:
Improving Putty settings on Windows http://dag.wieers.com/blog/improving-putty-settings-on-windows
If you have other best-practices, add a comment :)
Thanks,
Dag Wieers wrote:
You may be interested in a blog post of mine:
Improving Putty settings on Windows http://dag.wieers.com/blog/improving-putty-settings-on-windowsIf you have other best-practices, add a comment :)
Thanks,
Dag,
Thanks for that *very* helpful post. Putty is now far more user-friendly :)
-R
Dag,
I thought I had the latest version, but alas, I found I did not. Grabbed the latest version and I must admit, those few tips you put in your blog really makes a huge difference. Putty always appeared to be a slow updated package, and while I don't use it much, I do have to have it for times when I need to be "at the desktop"..
Thanks ..
Sam
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Sam Drinkard sam@wa4phy.net wrote:
Hi again,
I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like keywords are blank. Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in putty or is there something with Centos man pages that cause this to happen?
I use putty almost exclusively to connect to CentOS and I have no problems. If keywords are blank, I would first check that the "Default Bold Foreground" is not set to the same value as "Default Bold Background" in the 'Colours' settings. Also check the character set on the 'Translation' settings. I use UTF-8.
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:28:55PM -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote:
Hi again,
I've got a nagging irritant with either putty or the man pages, or perhaps my setup. If I use putty to log into my server and request any man page, it returns the page, but really important stuff like keywords are blank. Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in putty or is there something with Centos man pages that cause this to happen?
Try this: in Putty, go to Window -> Translation for "Received data assumed to be in which character set:" select UTF-8
Sam Drinkard wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 14:28:55 -0400:
Is this perhaps caused by the wrong terminal setting in putty
probably
or is there something with Centos man pages that cause this to happen?
works fine here.
Kai
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