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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