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Re: Updated: man-1.5k-2


On Sun, 11 Jan 2004, Steve Kelem wrote:

> Larry Hall wrote:
>
> >At 05:02 PM 1/9/2004, Steve Kelem you wrote:
> >
> >>I installed this version, and I still get the ESC characters.  Do you
> >>have any idea why I'm getting them?
> >
> >Does '/usr/share/misc/man.conf' contain this line?
> >
> >PAGER           /usr/bin/less -isrR
>
> No, it's set to "/bin/less -is".  I changed it to -isrR, but that didn't
> change the display. But that info led me to find that my environment
> variable PAGER was set to "less". After changing it to "less -isrR", man
> is working!  This should be in a FAQ somewhere, as I've have PAGER set
> to "less" for years without a problem.  I'm not sure what changed...

"less", apparently. :-)  Actually, it wasn't "less", it was "groff" (the
program that "man" uses to format the man pages).  See
<http://google.com/search?q=announcement+groff-1.18.1-1+cygwin>.

> Thanks for your help!
> Steve

HTH,
	Igor
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