ls -l | less shows "escape" chars

[Clemson, Chris]

> > that looks suspiciously like ANSI (colour) escape codes.
> > is your terminal setting correct?
> > 
> $ echo $TERM
> xterm

hmm, try setting TERM to vt100 or something, as that's quite a simple
terminal type and doesn't do anything fancy other than bold and underline.
of course, if your terminfo/termcap stuff knows about cygwin, you could set
TERM=cygwin instead.

chris

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