Is it possible to make `man´ work? [Actually, 2 bugs on top of each other]

Ilya Zakharevich nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org
Sun Dec 4 01:29:41 GMT 2022


On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 10:43:04PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> If I do
>   man man
> in a Windows’ console, I get garbage on screen before I press
>     -r

I confirm that this disappeared in the latest(=test) version of cygwin.

However, the following problem remains (although it is probably not
cygwin-specific):

> Contrary to
>   man man
> this cannot be overwritten by setting
>   set MANPAGER=less -sr
> .  (However, this may be overwritten by setting
>   set PAGER=less -sr
> )

Thanks,
Ilya


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