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Re: bug in perldoc (escape characters in output)


--- Yaakov Selkowitz
<yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

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> 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.
> 

OK, thanks for all who replied--so perldoc doesn't
have the color highlighting to begin with.  So it
would seem that man is a better command for reading
perl documentation.  My apologies for not reading the
README file for perl.

> 
> Yaakov
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