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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 21:36:58 +0300
From: "Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT gnu DOT org) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Groff specific adjustments of djgpp.env.
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> Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:16:04 +0200
> From: "Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com]" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
> 
> Starting with groff-1.18, the man pages created by Tascii are formated using
> SGR escape sequences as default.  To display this man pages a DJGPP port of
> less 418 or higher is required.  That less version will display the man pages
> correctly if it is started with the -R flag.  To avoid inconvenieces this flag
> will be added to the LESS section of djgpp.env.  Also the paths have changed
> and will be adjusted accordingly.  I will apply the patch below to both HEAD
> and v2_05_1 branches.

Why not set GROFF_NO_SGR=1 instead?  The SGR sequences are a nuisance
for DOS and Windows.

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