Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <184670-220031113203243938@M2W075.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: lhall AT rfk DOT com X-Originating-IP: 209.113.174.244 From: "lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com" To: rpraetorius AT aspenres DOT com, jurgen DOT defurne AT philips DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 15:32:43 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Jan 2003 20:32:44.0028 (UTC) FILETIME=[ED1F43C0:01C2BB42] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h0DKXBq17909 Well, as it turns out, the email archives aren't your friend. They are your enemy! Chris Faylor was kind enough to poin this out to me: But seriously, I'm guessing it was fat fingers on my part, unless someone's written a new shuffle routine for the email archives. But then again, maybe they have. Using the cygwin.com search of the email archives just now to verify the pointer has shown *something* is amiss at least. Searching for 'perldoc' in January returns: Christopher Faylor - Re: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output**** Re: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output * From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com> * To: cygwin at cygwin dot com * Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:41:11 -0500 * Subject: Re: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output * References: <123820-220031510155251826 ... http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00511.html 2003-01-10, 4940 bytes However, following the link to msg00511.html doesn't correlate: Re: Header File Package * From: DEEPA SIVASANKARANE * To: cygwin at cygwin dot com * Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:07:36 -0500 * Subject: Re: Header File Package Somebody's having fun here (at our expense). I guess that's why I always shied away from searching the email archives and posting the link rather than suggesting that those enquiring should just perform a search themselves. At least if I had done that this time, they would've been the ones burned rather than both of us! Next time I'll know better. ;-) Well, before I revert to my former kurmudgening ways of saying "search the archives!" ;-), I'll make one more effort to point to the proper message. If this one doesn't move before you get there, this should help. If it seems unrelated to your plight, "search the archives!" ;-) Just use google or gmane instead of cygwin.com! ;-) Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Robert Praetorius RPraetorius AT AspenRes DOT Com Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:46:55 -0500 To: jurgen DOT defurne AT philips DOT com, lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com Subject: RE: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output short answer: less -R > I also do not understand what a discussion about slashes and backslashes > in POSIX and Win32 paths has to do with ANSI escape sequences in > formatted visual output. That is where you sent me with the URL below. > Since the above search did not turn up any part the discussion below, I > severely doubt that it will help with my little problem. > Anybody else on this list who might have a clue ? The first time I followed Mr. Hall's link, it took me to a message saying one should try less -R to get escape sequences to work. This morning it points to the message you refer to. I've searched the archives and haven't been able to find the message I saw before. I CAN find Mr. Hall's message, which you quoted: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00521.html and your quote seems to be accurate. I'm mystified. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/