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From: "Hannu E K Nevalainen" <_garbage_collector_ AT telia DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 19:08:49 +0200
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For man rxvt:

Use google on YODLTAGSTART and you'll eventually find a sed script and how
to use it. It was posted very recently to this list.

/Hannu E K Nevalainen, B.Sc. EE - 59+16.37'N, 17+12.60'E             --76-->

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On Behalf
> Of geneSmith
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 3:56 PM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: ls -l | less shows "escape" chars
>
>
> Luc Hermitte wrote, On 7/1/2004 9:14 AM:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > * On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 09:06:16AM -0400, geneSmith
> > <gene DOT smith AT sea DOT siemens DOT com> wrote:
> >
> >> Also, my less man page is totally messed up. All other man pages
> >> seem to work.
> >
> >
> > I have export PAGER='less -R' in my .bashrc
> >
> > HTH,
>
> Oops, I misspoke. It is my rxvt man page that is messed up. I see stuff
> like this when I do
> man rxvt
> I see stuff like this:
>
>
>      .YODLTAGSTART.  roffcmd  .SH  "NAME"  .YODLTAGEND.  rxvt (ouR
> XVT) - a VT102 emulator for  the  X  window  system.YODLTAGSTART.
> roffcmd .PP .YODLTAGEND.
>
> Setting PAGER does not seem to affect anything for me.
>
> Anyhow,when I do
> alias less="less -R"
>
> My ls -l | less problem is solved.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -gene
>
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