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From: "Robert McNulty Junior" <bmj2001 AT bellsouth DOT net>
To: "Shaddy Baddah" <Shaddy_Baddah AT hotmail DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.18.1-1
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 00:12:33 -0600
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Worked for me, too.
I guess Dr Zell was right after all.


-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
Of Shaddy Baddah
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 12:10 AM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: groff-1.18.1-1


Hi,

Despite my best effort at sifting through the mailing list for the solution,
the posting that solved my problem eluded me until I had already sent my
original question. Apologies, but the I have found the fix.  Please refer to
the below from the RE: Problem about man-1.5m2 posting of Mon, 24 Nov 2003:

> >>>>> "Barry" == Barry Buchbinder <Buchbinder> writes:
>
>     Barry> I found the same thing and 2 other problems
>     Barry> (1) If the environmental variable LESS is set, it
> overrides the PAGER
>     Barry> setting in man.conf.
>
>     Barry> (2) Large chunks of text can be incorrectly made bold.
>
>     Barry> Not wanting to have to choose between less working the way
> I want and man
>     Barry> working properly, I I've rolled back to ver 1.5j-2.
>
> Can you try what happens with the following two lines in
> /usr/share/misc/man.conf.
>
> NROFF  /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc
> PAGER  /usr/bin/less -isrR
>

Regards,
Shaddy

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