Re: Strange characters

[Marcus Vinicius Ferreira <marcus_ferreira at yahoo dot com>]

Hi Igor,


Using alias to less did not work.

I can see the difference what you suggested using color ls:

    $ /bin/ls -l --color | /bin/less -r

compared to

    $ /bin/ls -l --color | /bin/less


Defining $PAGER to less aliased or explicitly to "/bin/less -r" does not
resolve either. I still can see the funny sequence of "â^'" in each man page.



Marcus






--- Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Marcus Vinicius Ferreira wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I was studying man pages more deeply in Cygwin and I can not solve a
> problem
> > involving strange (format ?) characters. As an example, here is a part of
> "man
> > zip".
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________
> >
> >        zipnote [a^'hwL] [a^'b path] zipfile
> >        zipsplit [a^'hiLpst] [a^'n size] [a^'b path] zipfile
> >
> > DESCRIPTION
> >        zip  is  a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS,
> MSDOS,
> >        OS/2, Windows NT, Minix, Atari and Macintosh, Amiga and Acorn RISC 
> OS.
> >
> >        It  is  analogous to a combination of the UNIX commands tar(1) and
> coma??
> >        press(1) and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katza?Ts ZIP for  MSDOS 
> sysa??       tems).
> >
> > ______________________________________________________________
> >
> >
> > Although some colors appear in the text description (white, grey and navy
> > blue), a set of "a", "^", "'" makes impossible to understand some parts.
> >
> > I tried to change enviroment variables such as $LANG, $TERM, $CYGWIN with
> no
> > results. I made a fresh new installation and the problem re-appears.
> >
> > What's wrong?
> >
> >
> > My cygwin dll is 1.5.5, Windows XP Pro, bash 2.05b.
> >
> > Marcus
> 
> alias less='/bin/less -r'
> 	Igor
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