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Bill McCormick wrote:
> Bill McCormick wrote:
>> Bill McCormick wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> There's something wrong with my man pager; it's producing garbage
>>> output. My ~/.bashrc has these entries:
>>>
>>> export MANPAGER='less -isrR'
>>> export PAGER='less -r'
>>>
>> I've looked the the archives and others have other problems and
>> solutions that are documented (ref:
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2006-11/msg00745.html) but this
>> solution isn't working for me. Also, I'm not finding anything in the
>> FAQ or User's Guide.
>>
> BTW, this is a brand new install on a raid 1 mirror. Does cygwin maybe
> have some problem with raid drives?

  It really shouldn't make any difference, Cygwin just relies on the
underlying OS' support for devices.  If you can open a file on the drive in
windows explorer and it doesn't come up full of garbage, cygwin ought to get
the same results.

  Must admit I haven't a clue what's causing your problem, never seen anything
like it before.  It looks like possibly the decompression is going wrong -
what happens if you run 'zcat' on the corresponding man page .gz file?  I
can't reproduce what you get even after running the two export commands you
list there.

    cheers,
      DaveK

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