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Date:	Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:54:51 +0800
From:	Greg Matheson <lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw>
To:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: two problems w/ new perl encountered
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In-Reply-To:	<14512692592.20030314210151@familiehaase.de>; from gp@familiehaase.de on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 21:01:51 +0100

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> >   This wouldn't be so bad, because perldoc does work, sort of.  For a while now,
> >   however, it's terminfo entry has been screwed up - rather than intelligent curses
> >   effects, I get the expanded escape sequences.  Man works okay.

> Not the fault of perl (I believe!), it works well as perl was built
> and after upgrading cygwin to some later version than 1.3.12 it
> doesn't work without this problem.  Do you have a guess how to fix it?

Didn't the default options of less change? 

        export PAGER='/bin/less -R';

helped me with perldoc. I've forgotten if I was also having problems
with man, however.

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