Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:54:51 +0800 From: Greg Matheson To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: two problems w/ new perl encountered Message-ID: <20030315075451.B977@ms> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <200303141606.h2EG6O319858@mailgate5.cinetic.de> <14512692592.20030314210151@familiehaase.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14512692592.20030314210151@familiehaase.de>; from gp@familiehaase.de on Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 21:01:51 +0100 On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > This wouldn't be so bad, because perldoc does work, sort of. For a while now, > > however, it's terminfo entry has been screwed up - rather than intelligent curses > > effects, I get the expanded escape sequences. Man works okay. > Not the fault of perl (I believe!), it works well as perl was built > and after upgrading cygwin to some later version than 1.3.12 it > doesn't work without this problem. Do you have a guess how to fix it? Didn't the default options of less change? export PAGER='/bin/less -R'; helped me with perldoc. I've forgotten if I was also having problems with man, however. -- Greg Matheson I have an elaborate mnemonic for Dr Bean's Penpal Pool remembering what day it is. It's Address: palpool called the number system. Domain: @cn91.chinmin.edu.tw -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/