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From:	geneSmith <gene DOT smith AT sea DOT siemens DOT com>
Subject:	Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
Date:	Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:28:42 -0400
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Luc Hermitte wrote, On 7/1/2004 9:14 AM:

> Hello,
> 
> * On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:06:16AM -0400, geneSmith <gene DOT smith AT sea DOT siemens DOT com> wrote:
> 
>>Also, my less man page is totally messed up. All other man pages seem
>>to work.
> 
> 
> I have 
>     export PAGER='less -R'
> in my .bashrc
> 
> HTH,
man less started working again. I don't know why.

Anyhow, when I do
ls -l | less -R
it works fine and I see correct colors and no ESC chars.
Without the -R it is it is messed up.

-- 
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