Telnet Man Page

Lokeey lokeey at gmail.com
Thu Feb 17 14:03:25 UTC 2005


I'm getting the same broken up message as he is. 


On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:17:32 -0500, Bob Chiodini <rchiodin at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 11:21 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> > Bob Chiodini wrote:
> > > The telnet man page is almost unreadable.  Does anyone else see this?
> > >
> > > It looks okay in rawhide.
> >
> > FC3 telnet manpage looks fine here. What is your locale setting?
> >
> > Does "LANG=C man telnet" look any better?
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> 
> Paul,
> 
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> 
> LANG=C man telnet does not look any different.
> 
> First page of man telnet (LANG=C):
> 
>         .           .          .          .          .          .
>         .          .          .          .          .           .
>         .           .          .          .          .          .
>         .             .             .             .             .
>         .TH  TELNET  1         .SH NAME         telnet - user in-
> terface to the TELNET protocol          .SH  SYNOPSIS          .B
> telnet          [-8]  [-E]  [-F] [-K] [-L] [-S tos] [-X authtype]
> [-a] [-c] [-d] [-e escapechar] [-f]  [-k  realm]  [-l  user]  [-n
> tracefile]  [-r] [-x] [host [port]] The command is used to commu-
> nicate with another host using the protocol.  If is invoked with-
> out the argument, it enters command mode, indicated by its prompt
> ( In this mode, it accepts and executes the commands  listed  be-
> low.   If  it  is  invoked with arguments, it performs an command
> with those arguments.  Specify an 8-bit data path.   This  causes
> an  attempt  to  negotiate  the  option on both input and output.
> Stop any character from being recognized as an escape  character.
> -F  forward a copy of the local credentials to the remote system.
> -K Specify no automatic login to the remote system.   Specify  an
> 8-bit  data  path on output.  This causes the BINARY option to be
> negotiated on output.  -S tos Set the  IP  type-of-service  (TOS)
> option  for the telnet connection to the value which can be a nu-
> meric TOS value (in decimal, or a hex value preceded by 0x, or an
> octal  value preceded by a leading 0) or, on systems that support
> 
> Rawhide also has LANG=en_US.UTF-8, but the man page looks correct.
> 
> Bob...
> 
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