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Problem with terminal escapes for manpages RESENT W/OUT ENCLOSURES


I thought I sent this several weeks back, but I don't see it on the list. My SWAG is that the attached zipfile caused it to be refused.
If the attachments are needed for understanding, please, how can I post them?
=== ORIGINAL MESSAGE FOLLOWS ===


Background: everything up to date
Terminal: rxvt

If I query info for a page that exists only in the manpages, all is well except there's nothing special about highlighting.
If, however, I use man itself it behaves as though it is double-escaping the highlight sequences: i.e. the \e]??m codes are in the source and man surrounds them with additional escapes in order to render "non-display" codes instead of just letting them do their thing.
If I'm really a glutton for punishment I can try pinfo. That gives me the worst of both worlds.


attached:
(a) cygcheck output
(b) screenshot "info man"
(c) screenshot "man man"
(d) screenshot "pinfo man"

The screenshots were created in .png format by the Gimp v2.0-pre.

possibilities that occur to me: something not so good in terminfo or in my .Xdefaults

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David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
"By God's Grace, I am a Christian man; by my actions a great sinner." -- The Way of a Pilgrim: R.French, Tr.
Life is too short to tolerate crappy software!





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