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Subject: Fresh cygwin install shows escape sequences (pager problems with man & less)
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:29:23 -0800
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I just did a full (100%) cygwin install on a fresh Win2K system.  (Well, this is actually the third time: I had two HDs crash Friday.)

On the fresh cygwin install, even before installing ~/.bashrc, when I did "man bash" all the ANSI escape sequences were visible.  If I specify "MANPAGER=more", the sequences are interpreted as expected.

The problem seems to be with 'less'.  It appears less needs to be aliased to 'less -r' for this behavior to go away.  Things are OK with man if I set "MANPAGER='less -r'.

Anyone got a spare clue?  Any idea why the default installation of 'man' and 'less' are behaving this way after a Monday install, when all was fine last Friday?

After crashing two hard disks in the same day, I could be cursed...

-BobC


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