From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: How can I get colors from ls to less
Date: 27 Sep 2000 18:55:37 GMT
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Wolfgang Polzleitner <wp AT sensotech DOT at> wrote:

> However, in DJGPP bash 

'bash' has no influence on this...

> the -r command changes the ESC into a single
> character (little arrow pointing left), i.e. the output looks like
>  <-[00m_bashrc<-[00m
> where the <- is just one character.

Ah, yes. That quite probably means that less comes without (ANSI)
escape sequence interpretation built in. DJGPP will use colors but for
other effects (it simulates underlining and boldface by colors). You
have two options, then

1) Load 'ANSI.SYS' or one of its improved versions (I'd recommend
   the nnansi.exe TSR, available on SimTel.Net).

2) Patch the 'termios' or color support (I don't know all the details
   of it myself, either) into 'less'.
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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