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Re: two problems w/ new perl encountered
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> > This wouldn't be so bad, because perldoc does work, sort of. For a while now,
> > however, it's terminfo entry has been screwed up - rather than intelligent curses
> > effects, I get the expanded escape sequences. Man works okay.
> Not the fault of perl (I believe!), it works well as perl was built
> and after upgrading cygwin to some later version than 1.3.12 it
> doesn't work without this problem. Do you have a guess how to fix it?
Didn't the default options of less change?
export PAGER='/bin/less -R';
helped me with perldoc. I've forgotten if I was also having problems
with man, however.
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