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Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 15:41:24 +0200
From: "Gerrit P. Haase" <gp AT familiehaase DOT de>
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To: Harald Maier <maierh AT myself DOT com>
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Subject: Re: perldoc prints control characters
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Hallo Harald,

Am Samstag, 5. April 2003 um 13:50 schriebst du:


> If I run the following command:

>   $ perldoc Getopt::Long

> Then I get too printed the nasty control characters, e.g.:

>   ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
>          Getopt::Long - Extended processing of command line options

> I am not sure if this is related to

>   perl                 5.8.0-2

In perl-5.8.0-2 perldoc is patched to always use the -t switch,
your perldoc is not the perldoc from perl-5.8.0-2.


Gerrit
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