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: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:51:56 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: steve@kelem.net cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Updated: man-1.5k-2 In-Reply-To: <400237C2.3050804@pacbell.net> Message-ID: References: <878ykizo1g.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com> <3FFF2511.1050204@pacbell.net> <6.0.1.1.0.20040109171635.03805740@127.0.0.1> <400237C2.3050804@pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Steve Kelem wrote: > Larry Hall wrote: > > >At 05:02 PM 1/9/2004, Steve Kelem you wrote: > > > >>I installed this version, and I still get the ESC characters. Do you > >>have any idea why I'm getting them? > > > >Does '/usr/share/misc/man.conf' contain this line? > > > >PAGER /usr/bin/less -isrR > > No, it's set to "/bin/less -is". I changed it to -isrR, but that didn't > change the display. But that info led me to find that my environment > variable PAGER was set to "less". After changing it to "less -isrR", man > is working! This should be in a FAQ somewhere, as I've have PAGER set > to "less" for years without a problem. I'm not sure what changed... "less", apparently. :-) Actually, it wasn't "less", it was "groff" (the program that "man" uses to format the man pages). See . > Thanks for your help! > Steve HTH, 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/