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Re: Strange characters
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Marcus Vinicius Ferreira <marcus_ferreira at yahoo dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:28:41 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Strange characters
- References: <20031024162407.61173.qmail@web40110.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Marcus Vinicius Ferreira wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was studying man pages more deeply in Cygwin and I can not solve a problem
> involving strange (format ?) characters. As an example, here is a part of "man
> zip".
>
> ______________________________________________________________
>
> zipnote [a^'hwL] [a^'b path] zipfile
> zipsplit [a^'hiLpst] [a^'n size] [a^'b path] zipfile
>
> DESCRIPTION
> zip is a compression and file packaging utility for Unix, VMS, MSDOS,
> OS/2, Windows NT, Minix, Atari and Macintosh, Amiga and Acorn RISC OS.
>
> It is analogous to a combination of the UNIX commands tar(1) and coma??
> press(1) and is compatible with PKZIP (Phil Katza?Ts ZIP for MSDOS sysa?? tems).
>
> ______________________________________________________________
>
>
> Although some colors appear in the text description (white, grey and navy
> blue), a set of "a", "^", "'" makes impossible to understand some parts.
>
> I tried to change enviroment variables such as $LANG, $TERM, $CYGWIN with no
> results. I made a fresh new installation and the problem re-appears.
>
> What's wrong?
>
>
> My cygwin dll is 1.5.5, Windows XP Pro, bash 2.05b.
>
> Marcus
alias less='/bin/less -r'
Igor
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