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, 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?
>>
>> 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,
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