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When I look at a man page in a bash window under cygwin, I see that 
video escape sequences are not interpreted. My TERM is set to "xterm" in 
an xterm window and "cygwin" in a DOS window. LANG variables are set to 
en_US. As an example, here are a few lines from the screen dump of "man 
cygwin"

INTRO(3)                            Cygwin                            
INTRO(3)

ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
     ESC[1mintro ESC[22m- Introduction to the Cygwin API

ESC[1mDESCRIPTIONESC[0m
     ESC[1mCygwin  ESC[22mis  a  Linux-like  environment  for Windows. 
It consists of two parts:
...
...

If I "echo ${ESCSEQ} some-text" then the escape sequence is correctly 
interpreted. Problem occurs only during man pages.

Any suggestions?
Vinod

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