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Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:26:06 +0800
From: Greg Matheson <lang AT ms DOT chinmin DOT edu DOT tw>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: perl error messages with cygwin 1.3.18-1
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In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.5.2.20030104233214.00adfb38@mail.earthlink.net>; from jeremyhetzler@mail.earthlink.net on Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 23:34:40 -0800

On Sat, 04 Jan 2003, Jeremy Hetzler wrote:

> At 05:03 AM 1/2/2003 -0600, Tommy Butler 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

> >    ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m

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

That's great. I assumed it was due to the child process
problem that I think was preventing me using perldoc before.

I put         export PAGER='/bin/less -R';
in my /etc/profile,
and now I don't have to think about installing an HTML version
anymore ;-)

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                             did it.
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