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RE: Problem about man-1.5m2
- From: "Robert McNulty Junior" <bmj2001 at bellsouth dot net>
- To: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 20:56:18 -0600
- Subject: RE: Problem about man-1.5m2
Gary, dude. That straighten out my man(ual) problems too. Thanks.
Robert
-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-owner@cygwin.com]On Behalf
Of Gary R. Van Sickle
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:36 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: RE: Problem about man-1.5m2
> >>>>> "Barry" == Barry Buchbinder <Buchbinder> writes:
>
> Barry> I found the same thing and 2 other problems
> Barry> (1) If the environmental variable LESS is set, it
> overrides the PAGER
> Barry> setting in man.conf.
>
> Barry> (2) Large chunks of text can be incorrectly made bold.
>
> Barry> Not wanting to have to choose between less working the way
> I want and man
> Barry> working properly, I I've rolled back to ver 1.5j-2.
>
> Can you try what happens with the following two lines in
> /usr/share/misc/man.conf.
>
> NROFF /usr/bin/nroff -c -mandoc
> PAGER /usr/bin/less -isrR
>
That fixes it for me.
And now for my obligatory Unix rant: I've never, not once, in all my many
years
on this Earth, had to dink with a file somewhere that I didn't even know
existed
to get Windows' help systems to NOT PRINT "ESC" WHEN IT SEES A FORMATTING
CHARACTER.
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Gary R. Van Sickle
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