X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Andrew Schulman Subject: Re: garbage in man output Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:55:24 -0500 Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <45E8817C.3050103@math.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archive: encrypt 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. > > > See http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00745.html . The > solution there worked for me. Thanks-- that works. Much obliged. Andrew. -- 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/