Various pagers have been giving me question marks in boxes and hexadecimal codes. This is probably because I didn’t have the right font in the past and inserted various hacks into my ~/.bash tree to get around them, e.g. aliasing a LANG=C before every perldoc command. Well, now I’ve just about got everything right and proper in UTF-8 mode using a uxterm, but those little nigglers still pop up. Today I did a man less and found the LESSCHARSET environment...
There must be a gazillion posts on this, so I’m just going to concentrate on what I did wrong. First I wanted to mount the target share as NFS, but the server doesn’t export to our desktop subnet at work. I saw it was running Samba, and remembered having had it working on Windows XP, so tried that. A friend at work had an /etc/fstab line that almost worked. Turns out smbfs is deprecated and cifs is the new smbfs,...
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