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On 3/1/2007 3:13 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> ...man pages are all coming out with formatting commands
> rendered as garbage text.  For example, the output of 'man ls' starts out
> with
>
> ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
>        ls - list directory contents
>
> where the 'ESC' strings are rendered in inverse video.  The first line is
> supposed to render 'NAME' in bold face.  
>
> All of my man pages are so full of this stuff as to be close to unreadable.
> Can someone tell me what's causing it, and how I can fix it?
>   
See http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00745.html .  The 
solution there worked for me.

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