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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:28:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Marcus Vinicius Ferreira <marcus_ferreira AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Strange characters
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Marcus Vinicius Ferreira wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was studying man pages more deeply in Cygwin and I can not solve a problem
> involving strange (format ?) characters. As an example, here is a part of "man
> zip".
>
> ______________________________________________________________
>
>        zipnote [a^'hwL] [a^'b path] zipfile
>        zipsplit [a^'hiLpst] [a^'n size] [a^'b path] zipfile
>
> DESCRIPTION
>        zip  is  a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, MSDOS,
>        OS/2, Windows NT, Minix, Atari and Macintosh, Amiga and Acorn RISC  OS.
>
>        It  is  analogous to a combination of the UNIX commands tar(1) and coma??
>        press(1) and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katza?Ts ZIP for  MSDOS  sysa??       tems).
>
> ______________________________________________________________
>
>
> Although some colors appear in the text description (white, grey and navy
> blue), a set of "a", "^", "'" makes impossible to understand some parts.
>
> I tried to change enviroment variables such as $LANG, $TERM, $CYGWIN with no
> results. I made a fresh new installation and the problem re-appears.
>
> What's wrong?
>
>
> My cygwin dll is 1.5.5, Windows XP Pro, bash 2.05b.
>
> Marcus

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