Comments on: How To Fix Weird Character In Linux Man Page

By: cuzic4n

cuzic4n — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:19:28 +0000

Exactly what I needed. Ty. Worked on rhel5 but not rhel6.. Rhel6 worked with either of these entries:

NROFF           /usr/bin/groff -c -Tascii -mandoc 2>/dev/null
NROFF		/usr/bin/nroff -c -Tascii -mandoc 2>/dev/null

Rhel4/5:

NROFF           /usr/bin/groff -c -Tascii -mandoc 2>/dev/null

By: Damocles

Damocles — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:17:21 +0000

What I have been searching for is the syntax of man.config itself. The man page on it is awful. All it talks about is the NROFF command.

You are supposed to be able to populate this file with pathnames to have “man” search (as opposed to “MANPATH”), but I have as of yet to find the correct syntax.

By: Mike2

Mike2 — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:18:36 +0000

Be aware that formatted man pages are cached. Use man with the ‘-c’ flag to ignore the cache and regenerate the man page utilising any changes to /etc/man.config.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:55:19 +0000

Thanks so much! Finally a fix to this weirdness. Works on Debian!

By: Brett Jones

Brett Jones — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:08:21 +0000

After a year of dealing with funny characters, I figured, what the heck – google might have the answer! You were the top link on my search and it works beautifully!

My eye doctor thanks you (as does my sanity!)