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From: geneSmith <gene DOT smith AT sea DOT siemens DOT com>
Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:39:09 -0400
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Clemson, Chris wrote, On 7/1/2004 9:13 AM:

>>>that looks suspiciously like ANSI (colour) escape codes.
>>>is your terminal setting correct?
>>>
>>
>>$ echo $TERM
>>xterm
> 
> 
> hmm, try setting TERM to vt100 or something, as that's quite a simple
> terminal type and doesn't do anything fancy other than bold and underline.
> of course, if your terminfo/termcap stuff knows about cygwin, you could set
> TERM=cygwin instead.
> 
> chrisb
> 

export TERM=vt100
had no effect.

Where is the terminfo/termcap stuff?

Could it be significant that I installed and am using rxvt shell? 
However, when I use the default cygwin terminal I see the same thing.

-- 
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