[CentOS] Irritant

Wed May 7 19:00:20 UTC 2008
Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net>


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, 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
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>>     

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