Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 13:31:07 +1000 (EST) From: "David O'Shea" To: Barry Buchbinder cc: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" Subject: RE: man pages with weird characters In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Dear Barry, > I had the same problem (on Win98). I found one old mailing list post > recommending > exporting the following variables. > > export LESSCHARDEF=8bcccbcc18b95.33b33b. > export LESSBINFMT='*n-' > > It worked for me. Does anyone have a feel for which is a better solution? That seems like a bit of a kludge to me - it tells less to display a "-" character whenever there's a non-ASCII character in the text. Sometimes it might be useful to know when there are non-ASCII characters in there, and you might want to see the code. Handy if you're making a man page the night before your assignment is due and you've never done it before, but this probably doesn't apply to too many people :) (if I'd thought about it, I would have done it in plain text, gzipped it, and said it was a catman page) David -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com