Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 22:08:54 -0400 From: drifter@stratos.net To: Chuck <crtb@capecod.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Configuration files Message-ID: <19980620220854.B752@stratos.net> In-Reply-To: <199806210040.UAA00290@capecod.net>; from Chuck on Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 08:40:29PM -0400 References: <199806210040.UAA00290@capecod.net>
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On Sat, Jun 20, 1998 at 08:40:29PM -0400, Chuck wrote:
> Has anyone ever compiled an index of all the configuration files
> needed to run a typical BSD site? Basically one line per file,
> describing roughly the subsystem it affects. Reason I ask is
> that I've been trying to locate whatever it is that tells my
> xterm windows to do "US-ASCII" rather than "Latin-1" or "ISO 8859-1".
> Pine often objects to this, and both less and more display extended
> characters with circumflex notation, which I find irritating.
XTerms by default use ISO 8859-1 charsets, don't they? In
any case, if they do, but `less' doesn't print the letters correctly,
try:
/bin/sh$ export LESS=-f # default option to less that avoids
# warning you that the ISO 8859-1 file
# you want to print is a "binary" one.
/bin/sh$ export LESSCHARSET=latin1
or
/bin/csh% setenv LESS '-f'
/bin/csh% setenv LESSCHARSET latin1
Put these in your .profile or .login to make the changes perm-
anent. I don't know if `more' can do this.
$ man less
for more details.
Sorry I didn't answer your main question, but I think you
have to do this with less regardless.
-drifter
>
> I'd ask the second question only, but it looks as if that should
> lead to the broader question. I try RTFM, but each configuration
> file has its own peculiar way of hiding.
>
> I'd consider building a database of files I encounter building a new
> FreeBSD (I'm overdue, running 2.2.2R), but I'm not running a very
> extended system and probably wouldn't encounter 1/10 of the files.
> Has anyone done this? TIA!
>
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