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From: "Clemson, Chris" <Chris DOT Clemson AT softwareag DOT co DOT uk>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:50:02 +0100
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> When I do "ls -l | less" a typical line looks like this with "ESC" in 
> reverse video and other weird chars. What causes this? Can it 
> be fixed?
> 
> -rwx------+   1 Administ ????????  1392640 Jul  1 08:31 
> ESC[01;32mNTUSER.DATESC[0m

that looks suspiciously like ANSI (colour) escape codes.
is your terminal setting correct?

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