On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 12:31, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > i already know that setting LANG=C will get me man pages in > an xterm that show the hyphens. the question is: is this the > acceptable hack for this, and where is the most appropriate > place for this setting? > > /etc/profile so everyone gets it? > /etc/profile.d/???.sh > my personal .bash_profile to minimize the effect on anything else? > > just curious about what's the best/safest approach for this. will > changing LANG have any adverse effects on anything else? > I just added an alias in my ~/.bashrc. If you want it for all users place it in /etc/bashrc. alias man='env LANG=C man' Works for me. ;-) Regards, Jim H
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