Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: geneSmith Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:39:09 -0400 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.168.89.166 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 In-Reply-To: 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. -- Lit up like Levy's -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/