From: John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com (John Wiersba) Subject: RE: Info and man/groff questions 17 Nov 1998 05:09:54 -0800 Message-ID: <03F4742D8225D21191EF00805FE62B9993C6B2.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.medstat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain To: "'Vince Rice'" , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com I also get the when less displays an end-of-line hyphen. Changing the configuration file for man /usr/local/lib/man.config to add the -r option to the less command changes the into an upside down exclamation point, which is perhaps less annoying... Also, I find that I have to use TERM=ansi for less to properly handle lines > 80 chars wide. With TERM=linux, I get an extra newline character after such lines which screws up the screen. John Wiersba (john DOT wiersba AT medstat DOT com) > -----Original Message----- > From: Vince Rice [mailto:vrice AT solidrocksystems DOT com] > Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 2:04 AM > To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > Subject: Info and man/groff questions > > > Thanks to Mumit and Earnie for clarifying the filenames for > TCL and TK. So > we're on to a couple of other "newbie" questions (but I have done some > research before asking them ). > > 1. I found binaries for texinfo on Ted Jump's page so that I > could use all of > those marvelous info files I downloaded from Cygnus . > However, the > key doesn't work as described; the key brings up > a split screen > with some help in it, the actual keypad key doesn't > do anything, just > beeps a few times, I presume because it's sending some escape > sequence that > info > isn't recognizing. I have TERM set to linux, and I have both > terminfo and > termcap entries for linux. > > 2. I also found binaries for man on Michael Hirmke's (I > didn't go look that > up, so I probably just butchered his name; sorry Michael) ftp > site. It also > works great, except where there are supposed to be > end-of-line dashes I'm > getting . For example, I get the following lines from > less' man page: > size, only the final screenful is displayed. Warn > ing: some systems use ^V as a special literaliza > tion character. > The characters are in blue on white, rather than the > white on blue of the > rest of the text (in other words, it's reverse video ). > > 3. Doesn't bash read .bashrc on startup? I'm changing to my > home directory > before invoking bash, but it's still not running it when it starts. > > Thanks! > > Vince > > - > For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send > a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".