Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/01/13/15:33:12
Well, as it turns out, the email archives aren't your friend. They
are your enemy! Chris Faylor was kind enough to poin this out to
me:
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00528.html>
But seriously, I'm guessing it was fat fingers on my part, unless someone's
written a new shuffle routine for the email archives. But then again, maybe
they have. Using the cygwin.com search of the email archives just now to
verify the pointer has shown *something* is amiss at least. Searching for
'perldoc' in January returns:
Christopher Faylor - Re: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc
output****
Re: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output * From:
Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com> * To: cygwin at cygwin dot
com * Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:41:11 -0500 * Subject: Re: less-378-1 :
ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output * References:
<123820-220031510155251826 ...
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00511.html 2003-01-10, 4940
bytes
However, following the link to msg00511.html doesn't correlate:
Re: Header File Package
* From: DEEPA SIVASANKARANE <aj9035 at wayne dot edu>
* To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
* Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:07:36 -0500
* Subject: Re: Header File Package
Somebody's having fun here (at our expense). I guess that's why I always
shied away from searching the email archives and posting the link rather
than suggesting that those enquiring should just perform a search
themselves.
At least if I had done that this time, they would've been the ones burned
rather than both of us! Next time I'll know better. ;-)
Well, before I revert to my former kurmudgening ways of saying "search the
archives!" ;-), I'll make one more effort to point to the proper message.
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00213.html>
If this one doesn't move before you get there, this should help. If it
seems unrelated to your plight, "search the archives!" ;-) Just use google
or gmane instead of cygwin.com! ;-)
Larry
Original Message:
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From: Robert Praetorius RPraetorius AT AspenRes DOT Com
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:46:55 -0500
To: jurgen DOT defurne AT philips DOT com, lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com
Subject: RE: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output
short answer: less -R
> I also do not understand what a discussion about slashes and backslashes
> in POSIX and Win32 paths has to do with ANSI escape sequences in
> formatted visual output. That is where you sent me with the URL below.
> Since the above search did not turn up any part the discussion below, I
> severely doubt that it will help with my little problem.
> Anybody else on this list who might have a clue ?
The first time I followed Mr. Hall's link, it took me to a message
saying one should try less -R to get escape sequences to work. This
morning it points to the message you refer to. I've searched the archives
and haven't been able to find the message I saw before. I CAN find Mr.
Hall's message, which you quoted:
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00521.html
and your quote seems to be accurate. I'm mystified.
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