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Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 23:34:40 -0800
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From: Jeremy Hetzler <jeremyhetzler AT mail DOT earthlink DOT net>
Subject: Re: perl error messages with cygwin 1.3.18-1
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At 05:03 AM 1/2/2003 -0600, Tommy Butler wrote:
>Greg Matheson wrote:
>Further, perldoc.exe isn't rendering pages correctly since 5.8 either.  For
>example, "$ perldoc UNIVERSAL" produces the following when run from cygwin 
>bash
>(quoted text snippet indented 3 spaces.)
>
>
>    ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
>           UNIVERSAL - base class for ALL classes (blessed references)
>
>    ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
>               $io = $fd->isa("IO::Handle");
>               $sub = $obj->can('print');
>
>               $yes = UNIVERSAL::isa($ref, "HASH");
>
>
>    ESC[1mDESCRIPTIONESC[0m
>           "UNIVERSAL" is the base class which all bless references will 
> inherit
>           from, see the perlobj manpage
>...
>
>Seems like escapes are getting printed out wrong...  Using man to read the
>perldocs works just fine though.  Hope this gets fixed somehow (if it is a bug
>indeed and not specific to my system.)  I'm also looking forward to using
>podchecker in 5.8, which recognizes =header3 command paragraphs in PODs!

There was a recent change to less that produced this behavior. Try adding 
the -R switch to $LESS.



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