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RE: Problem about man-1.5m2
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:59:29 -0600
- Subject: RE: Problem about man-1.5m2
> Gary, dude. That straighten out my man(ual) problems too. Thanks.
> Robert
Wasn't me, but the good Dr. Zell!
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Gary R. Van Sickle
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
> Of Gary R. Van Sickle
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:36 PM
> To: cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject: RE: Problem about man-1.5m2
>
>
> > >>>>> "Barry" == Barry Buchbinder <Buchbinder> writes:
> >
> > Barry> I found the same thing and 2 other problems
> > Barry> (1) If the environmental variable LESS is set, it
> > overrides the PAGER
> > Barry> setting in man.conf.
> >
> > Barry> (2) Large chunks of text can be incorrectly made bold.
> >
> > Barry> Not wanting to have to choose between less working the way
> > I want and man
> > Barry> working properly, I I've rolled back to ver 1.5j-2.
> >
> > Can you try what happens with the following two lines in
> > /usr/share/misc/man.conf.
> >
> > NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc
> > PAGER /usr/bin/less -isrR
> >
>
> That fixes it for me.
>
> And now for my obligatory Unix rant: I've never, not once, in all my many
> years
> on this Earth, had to dink with a file somewhere that I didn't even know
> existed
> to get Windows' help systems to NOT PRINT "ESC" WHEN IT SEES A FORMATTING
> CHARACTER.
>
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> Gary R. Van Sickle
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