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Re: Problem with less's output of man pages after update (ESC ...)


Gary,

Please attach your cygcheck output uncompressed--do not place it in-line in the body of your problem report.


I wonder why I'm not seeing this symptom? I have groff 1.18.1 and don't have the MANPAGER environment variable set.

This behavior was reported a few days ago (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg00820.html> and <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg00821.html>). It originates in a change to the groff package recently released. Chris Faylor supplied the remedy (<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-12/msg00849.html>):

export MANPAGER='less -R'

I found the messages with a local search for messages containing both "man" and "escape".

Randall Schulz


At 03:33 2002-12-20, Gary T. Leavens wrote:
Hi,

When I updated cygwin yesterday, everything works except for the formatting of
manual pages.  When I do

$ man man

I get output that looks like (starting with the third line):

ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
...
ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m

and in general has lots of these ESC codes.

...
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