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 X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:28:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Marcus Vinicius Ferreira cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange characters In-Reply-To: <20031024162407.61173.qmail@web40110.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20031024162407.61173.qmail@web40110.mail.yahoo.com> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Marcus Vinicius Ferreira wrote: > Hello, > > I was studying man pages more deeply in Cygwin and I can not solve a problem > involving strange (format ?) characters. As an example, here is a part of "man > zip". > > ______________________________________________________________ > > zipnote [a^'hwL] [a^'b path] zipfile > zipsplit [a^'hiLpst] [a^'n size] [a^'b path] zipfile > > DESCRIPTION > zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, MSDOS, > OS/2, Windows NT, Minix, Atari and Macintosh, Amiga and Acorn RISC OS. > > It is analogous to a combination of the UNIX commands tar(1) and coma?? > press(1) and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katza?Ts ZIP for MSDOS sysa?? tems). > > ______________________________________________________________ > > > Although some colors appear in the text description (white, grey and navy > blue), a set of "a", "^", "'" makes impossible to understand some parts. > > I tried to change enviroment variables such as $LANG, $TERM, $CYGWIN with no > results. I made a fresh new installation and the problem re-appears. > > What's wrong? > > > My cygwin dll is 1.5.5, Windows XP Pro, bash 2.05b. > > Marcus alias less='/bin/less -r' Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/