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Re: garbage in man output


> On 3/1/2007 3:13 PM, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> > ...man pages are all coming out with formatting commands
> > rendered as garbage text.  For example, the output of 'man ls' starts out
> > with
> >
> > ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
> >        ls - list directory contents
> >
> > where the 'ESC' strings are rendered in inverse video.  The first line is
> > supposed to render 'NAME' in bold face.  
> >   
> See http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00745.html .  The 
> solution there worked for me.

Thanks-- that works.  Much obliged.
Andrew.


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