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Date:	Sat, 30 Oct 2004 22:28:39 -0400
From:	Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net>
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Subject:	Re: bug in perldoc (escape characters in output)
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Elvin Peterson wrote:
| Hello,
|     The perl documentation viewed using the perldoc
| commands has escape characters inserted into it.  The
| same pages view with the man command are OK.  I think
| this is cygwin specific, so I am posting it here.
| Thanks.

Quoting /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/perl-5.8.5.README:

***NOTE: you may want to set LESS=-R for less output in your global
~         Cygwin environment because the escape characters are not
~         expanded without this setting.


Yaakov
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