Well, as it turns out, the email archives aren't your friend. They are your enemy! Chris Faylor was kind enough to poin this out to me:
<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00528.html> But seriously, I'm guessing it was fat fingers on my part, unless someone's written a new shuffle routine for the email archives. But then again, maybe they have. Using the cygwin.com search of the email archives just now to verify the pointer has shown *something* is amiss at least. Searching for 'perldoc' in January returns: Christopher Faylor - Re: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output**** Re: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output * From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com> * To: cygwin at cygwin dot com * Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 11:41:11 -0500 * Subject: Re: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output * References: <123820-220031510155251826 ... http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00511.html 2003-01-10, 4940 bytes However, following the link to msg00511.html doesn't correlate: Re: Header File Package * From: DEEPA SIVASANKARANE <aj9035 at wayne dot edu> * To: cygwin at cygwin dot com * Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 10:07:36 -0500 * Subject: Re: Header File Package Somebody's having fun here (at our expense). I guess that's why I always shied away from searching the email archives and posting the link rather than suggesting that those enquiring should just perform a search themselves. At least if I had done that this time, they would've been the ones burned rather than both of us! Next time I'll know better. ;-) Well, before I revert to my former kurmudgening ways of saying "search the archives!" ;-), I'll make one more effort to point to the proper message. <http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00213.html> If this one doesn't move before you get there, this should help. If it seems unrelated to your plight, "search the archives!" ;-) Just use google or gmane instead of cygwin.com! ;-) Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Robert Praetorius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 14:46:55 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: less-378-1 : ANSI escape sequences in perldoc output short answer: less -R > I also do not understand what a discussion about slashes and backslashes > in POSIX and Win32 paths has to do with ANSI escape sequences in > formatted visual output. That is where you sent me with the URL below. > Since the above search did not turn up any part the discussion below, I > severely doubt that it will help with my little problem. > Anybody else on this list who might have a clue ? The first time I followed Mr. Hall's link, it took me to a message saying one should try less -R to get escape sequences to work. This morning it points to the message you refer to. I've searched the archives and haven't been able to find the message I saw before. I CAN find Mr. Hall's message, which you quoted: http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-01/msg00521.html and your quote seems to be accurate. I'm mystified. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/