X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 01:29:40 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: File output Question Message-ID: <20110102062939.GA9156@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 09:25:17PM -0700, ERIC HO wrote: >Using the cat or file command on a file, the output is readable. But >if I use vim or less command, the output is either unreadable or >nothing displayed. Not sure why the file output is readable from some >commands and not others. Any way I can use vim/less command to display >this file readable? Thanks. > >I'm running cygwin 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31. You're not giving us much to go on but, as a wild guess, I'd wager that you don't have your TERM environment variable set to "cygwin". If that's not it, then please take a gander at: http://cygwin.com/problems.html and resend your problem report with more info. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple