--- Yaakov Selkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Elvin Peterson wrote: > | Hello, > | The perl documentation viewed using the > perldoc > | commands has escape characters inserted into it. > The > | same pages view with the man command are OK. I > think > | this is cygwin specific, so I am posting it here. > | Thanks. > > Quoting /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/perl-5.8.5.README: > > ***NOTE: you may want to set LESS=-R for less output > in your global > ~ Cygwin environment because the escape > characters are not > ~ expanded without this setting. >
OK, thanks for all who replied--so perldoc doesn't have the color highlighting to begin with. So it would seem that man is a better command for reading perl documentation. My apologies for not reading the README file for perl. > > Yaakov > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Cygwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - > http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFBhE3XpiWmPGlmQSMRAu1nAKCIZ54U7OlOj00ktArba4Ot+zYn5QCgv9FH > t65+hfLgCB8RvNhnZCnaD9M= > =LlHs > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > 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/ > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- 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/
