On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Steve Kelem wrote: > Larry Hall wrote: > > >At 05:02 PM 1/9/2004, Steve Kelem you wrote: > > > >>I installed this version, and I still get the ESC characters. Do you > >>have any idea why I'm getting them? > > > >Does '/usr/share/misc/man.conf' contain this line? > > > >PAGER /usr/bin/less -isrR > > No, it's set to "/bin/less -is". I changed it to -isrR, but that didn't > change the display. But that info led me to find that my environment > variable PAGER was set to "less". After changing it to "less -isrR", man > is working! This should be in a FAQ somewhere, as I've have PAGER set > to "less" for years without a problem. I'm not sure what changed...
"less", apparently. :-) Actually, it wasn't "less", it was "groff" (the program that "man" uses to format the man pages). See <http://google.com/search?q=announcement+groff-1.18.1-1+cygwin>. > Thanks for your help! > Steve HTH, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/
