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dbae: The previous posters are correct. Having said that, you might look at your shell initialization script: I'm guessing that it's setting your TERM variable to something incompatible with your command console. Many *nix programs will read the TERM variable to determine what features it can use to format your output better. However, if it's set to something incompatible with your terminal program, you'll get exactly the situation you describe. Be sure to check that your terminal software has enough features, too. If you want color, boldface, underlines, etc., be sure you use a program that handles it. The documentation for your terminal software should tell you enough information to figure out what the correct TERM value should be. (Though it may be overly cryptic, or not stated directly enough.) For example, the terminal I'm using here at work is mintty, and in the documentation it mentions:
So on my setup, I'm using TERM=xterm (I would have added it to my .bashrc script, except that mintty defaults to setting the value for me.) ...roboticus When your only tool is a hammer, all problems look like your thumb. In reply to Re: strange output characters from perldoc
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