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Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 13:31:07 +1000 (EST)
From: "David O'Shea" <david AT ems DOT uq DOT edu DOT au>
To: Barry Buchbinder <BBUCHBINDER AT niaid DOT nih DOT gov>
cc: "'cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com'" <cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
Subject: RE: man pages with weird characters
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Dear Barry,

> I had the same problem (on Win98).  I found one old mailing list post
> <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/1998-11/msg00686.html> 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 <XX> 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


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