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RE: man pages with weird characters
- To: Barry Buchbinder <BBUCHBINDER at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- Subject: RE: man pages with weird characters
- From: "David O'Shea" <david at ems dot uq dot edu dot au>
- Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 13:31:07 +1000 (EST)
- cc: "'cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com'" <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Dear Barry,
> I had the same problem (on Win98). I found one old mailing list post
> <http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/cygwin/1998-11/msg00686.html> recommending
> exporting the following variables.
>
> export LESSCHARDEF=8bcccbcc18b95.33b33b.
> export LESSBINFMT='*n-'
>
> It worked for me. Does anyone have a feel for which is a better solution?
That seems like a bit of a kludge to me - it tells less to display a "-"
character whenever there's a non-ASCII character in the text. Sometimes
it might be useful to know when there are non-ASCII characters in there,
and you might want to see the <XX> code. Handy if you're making a man
page the night before your assignment is due and you've never done it
before, but this probably doesn't apply to too many people :) (if I'd
thought about it, I would have done it in plain text, gzipped it, and said
it was a catman page)
David
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