The man-italic wrapper scripts enable italic display in manual pages (where italic is specified in the page) in terminals supporting italic mode. wget http://towo.net/cygwin/man-italic/man-italic-0.9-0.tar.bz2 wget http://towo.net/cygwin/man-italic/man-italic-0.9-src.tar.bz2 wget http://towo.net/cygwin/man-italic/setup.hint Thomas