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 To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: geneSmith Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:28:42 -0400 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <20040701131440.GA124@jade> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.168.89.166 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 In-Reply-To: <20040701131440.GA124@jade> Luc Hermitte wrote, On 7/1/2004 9:14 AM: > Hello, > > * On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:06:16AM -0400, geneSmith wrote: > >>Also, my less man page is totally messed up. All other man pages seem >>to work. > > > I have > export PAGER='less -R' > in my .bashrc > > HTH, man less started working again. I don't know why. Anyhow, when I do ls -l | less -R it works fine and I see correct colors and no ESC chars. Without the -R it is it is messed up. -- Lit up like Levy's -- 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/