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On 2007-03-15 23:46, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Vinod Gupta wrote:
>
>   
>> When I look at a man page in a bash window under cygwin, I see that
>> video escape sequences are not interpreted. My TERM is set to "xterm" in
>> an xterm window and "cygwin" in a DOS window. LANG variables are set to
>> en_US. As an example, here are a few lines from the screen dump of "man
>> cygwin"
>>
>> INTRO(3)                            Cygwin                            INTRO(3)
>>
>> ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
>>     ESC[1mintro ESC[22m- Introduction to the Cygwin API
>>
>> ESC[1mDESCRIPTIONESC[0m
>>     ESC[1mCygwin  ESC[22mis  a  Linux-like  environment  for Windows. It
>> consists of two parts:
>> ...
>> ...
>>
>> If I "echo ${ESCSEQ} some-text" then the escape sequence is correctly
>> interpreted. Problem occurs only during man pages.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>     
>
> Sure.  A Google search for "cygwin man esc" produces quite a few hits with
> a fix for this.  In particular, the most recent suggestions are to check
> the values of PAGER and MANPAGER (which we would have seen had you
> followed
>   


My PAGER variable was set to "less" I have changed it to "less -r" that 
fixed the problem.

Thanks,
Vinod


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