Re: Strange characters

Hi Igor, Using alias to less did not work. I can see the difference what you suggested using color ls: $ /bin/ls -l --color | /bin/less -r compared to $ /bin/ls -l --color | /bin/less Defining $PAGER to less aliased or explicitly to "/bin/less -r" does not resolve either. I still ca

Re: Strange characters

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". > > __

RE: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

Original Message: - From: Quan Ding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 12:43:47 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window) If I remove the PS1 variable setting in /etc/profile, the problem goes away. But my prom

RE: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

If I remove the PS1 variable setting in /etc/profile, the problem goes away. But my prompt becomes "bash-2.05b$" instead of the current directory I'm in. And I checked /etc/passwd file, I didn't see any /bin/sh, they are all /bin/bash. So I didn't change that file. And then I found out that the pro

Re: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

> After I started x-windows. There are strange extra > characters on the top of every window (login, xterm) > which look like the following: > \[\033]0;\w\007 > \022[32m\]\u@\h \[\033[33m\w\033[0m\] It would appear that you are running sh (/bin/sh) with bash escapes in your PS1 environment variab

RE: strange characters in Xterm (in X-window)

You're running /bin/sh as your shell but have bash specific escape sequences in your prompt. Change your prompt (/etc/profile, ~/.profile, etc) or change your shell (/etc/passwd) to /bin/bash. Larry Original Message: - From: Quan Ding [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 09:4