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Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 08:06:39 -0800
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From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz AT cris DOT com>
Subject: Re: Problem with less's output of man pages after update (ESC
  ...)
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Gary,

Please attach your cygcheck output uncompressed--do not place it in-line in 
the body of your problem report.


I wonder why I'm not seeing this symptom? I have groff 1.18.1 and don't 
have the MANPAGER environment variable set.

This behavior was reported a few days ago 
(<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg00820.html> and 
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg00821.html>). It originates in a 
change to the groff package recently released. Chris Faylor supplied the 
remedy (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg00849.html>):

export MANPAGER='less -R'

I found the messages with a local search for messages containing both "man" 
and "escape".

Randall Schulz


At 03:33 2002-12-20, Gary T. Leavens wrote:
>Hi,
>
>When I updated cygwin yesterday, everything works except for the formatting of
>manual pages.  When I do
>
>$ man man
>
>I get output that looks like (starting with the third line):
>
>ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
>...
>ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
>
>and in general has lots of these ESC codes.
>
>...
>--
>
>         Gary T. Leavens
>         Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University
>         229 Atanasoff Hall, Ames, Iowa 50011-1041 USA
>         http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~leavens  phone: +1-515-294-1580
>
>
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