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Re: bug in perldoc (escape characters in output)
- From: Elvin Peterson <elvin_peterson at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 10:39:26 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: bug in perldoc (escape characters in output)
--- Yaakov Selkowitz
<yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
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> 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
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