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 Message-ID: <40D081B9.1070203@wideopenwest.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:22:01 -0400 From: aoratos User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin List CC: Chris W Subject: Re: man pages formating (msg to Chris) References: <40D0612C.10203@cox.net> <6.1.0.6.0.20040616111704.0332bbf0@pop.prospeed.net> In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.0.20040616111704.0332bbf0@pop.prospeed.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Larry Hall wrote: > At 11:03 AM 6/16/2004, you wrote: > >>When I view man pages it doesn't format them properly, instead it shows codes like ESC[1m . . . how do I fix this? >> > > > > Check your '/usr/share/misc/man.config' file. Make sure PAGER is set > to '/usr/bin/less -isrR'. > Chris, I am having the same problems you just posted (man pages messed up and .bashrc problems). I have confirmed that my .bashrc and /usr/share/misc/man.conf (not man.config on my machine) are in the correct places and have the correct contents. I believe my problem is related to permissions, the config files are not being read even though I am the owner. While checking Larry Hall's suggestion (thanks) I could not read the man.conf file until I did a chmod on it. I am guessing my problem is related to "ntsec" and the fact that whenever I try to run mkpasswd and mkgroup as required, they die or timeout because I am on a global enterprise domain. I'm sorry this really isn't an answer for you, but I thought it might help your own troubleshooting. Aoratos -- 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/