X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45E8817C.3050103@math.cornell.edu> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 14:56:44 -0500 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: garbage in man output References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 3/1/2007 3:13 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > ...man pages are all coming out with formatting commands > rendered as garbage text. For example, the output of 'man ls' starts out > with > > ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m > ls - list directory contents > > where the 'ESC' strings are rendered in inverse video. The first line is > supposed to render 'NAME' in bold face. > > All of my man pages are so full of this stuff as to be close to unreadable. > Can someone tell me what's causing it, and how I can fix it? > See http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00745.html . The solution there worked for me. -- 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/