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Joe Asdf wrote:

> If anyone has any ideas or suggestions for fixing this, I'd appreciate 
> it!  Attached is the output from cygcheck.

I ran into this problem today, too -- I'm not sure what changed (updated 
man package?), but I've long had the following in my ~/.bashrc:

export PAGER=less

It seems that now, this environment variable overrides the setting in 
/usr/share/misc/man.conf:

PAGER=less -isrR

I fixed the problem by (1) leaving the PAGER setting in ~/.bashrc, but 
(2) ALSO setting MANPAGER in ~/.bashrc

export MANPAGER='less -isrR'

--
Chuck

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