bug in perldoc (escape characters in output)

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Elvin Peterson wrote:
| Hello,
|     The perl documentation viewed using the perldoc
| commands has escape characters inserted into it.  The
| same pages view with the man command are OK.  I think
| this is cygwin specific, so I am posting it here.
| Thanks.

Quoting /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/perl-5.8.5.README:

***NOTE: you may want to set LESS=-R for less output in your global
~         Cygwin environment because the escape characters are not
~         expanded without this setting.


Yaakov
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Cygwin)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFBhE3XpiWmPGlmQSMRAu1nAKCIZ54U7OlOj00ktArba4Ot+zYn5QCgv9FH
t65+hfLgCB8RvNhnZCnaD9M=
=LlHs
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----


--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/