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From:	dmeans AT the-means DOT net
Subject:	Re: Problem with less's output of man pages after update (ESC ...)
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date:	Fri, 20 Dec 2002 15:11:24 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To:	dmeans AT the-means DOT net
In-Reply-To:	<Pine.LNX.4.44.0212200425420.11752-100000@larch.cs.iastate.edu> from "Gary T. Leavens" at Dec 20, 2002 05:33:46 AM
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I had the same problem.  I fixed it by setting the env var 'PAGER'
as follows:

export PAGER='/usr/bin/less -r'

which, according to the man page, doesn't make a lot of since.  But, since
I was seeing by default what I believed to be associated with the '-r' 
switch, I figured I could toggle it off by providing the -r switch.

Seems to have worked.


David

> 
> Hi,
> 
> When I updated cygwin yesterday, everything works except for the formatting of
> manual pages.  When I do
> 
> $ man man
> 
> I get output that looks like (starting with the third line):
> 
> ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
> ...
> ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
> 
> and in general has lots of these ESC codes.
> haven't edited /etc/man.conf.   I don't have MANPAGER defined in the
> environment, and I get the same output with
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