RE: Ansi escape sequences showing in Man pages

[<jbonnett at sola dot com dot au>]

Thanks for your reply.

Unset PAGER did not fix things, but after reading some man pages on the
Internet, I discovered a way to make things work for me.

PAGER="less -r"
Export PAGER

After that I get readable highlighted man pages.

Thanks for giving me the clue where to look.

John B.

-----Original Message-----
From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, 9 August 2006 9:45 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: John Bonnett, PR&D, Lonsdale
Subject: Re: Ansi escape sequences showing in Man pages

On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Igor Peshansky wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, jbonnett wrote:
>
> > I am having a problem where escape sequences, rather than colour
> > highlighting, appear when I display man pages.
> >
> > I am running CygWin under Windows XP SP2. My prompt (the default)
> > contains escape sequences and the prompt appears correctly in
colour. If
> > I enter
> > ls --color
> > then I see nicely coloured names but in man I see escape sequences.
> >
> > I have searched the archives and, although there are lots of
mentions of
> > escape sequences, nothing seems to match this problem.
> >
> > I run CygWin at home under Win2K and I have a colleague at the next
desk
> > that is running CygWin under XP SP2. The man pages are fine in both
> > these two cases.
> >
> > Any clues about what to check to fix this on my work machine?
>
> Unset PAGER.
>
> If that is not your problem, please read and follow the Cygwin problem
> reporting guidelines at <http://cygwin.com/problem.html>, particularly
the
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Apologies.  Make that <http://cygwin.com/problems.html>.

> part about attaching (as an uncompressed text *attachment*) the output
of
> "cygcheck -svr" on your machine.
> HTH,
> 	Igor

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