Re: troff converter ?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 12:49:52 +0100
> From: Dumas Patrice <address@hidden>
> 
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 02:08:56PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
> >     ESC[1mDistributionESC[0m
> > 
> > BTW, if you look at this on a terminal, isn't that exactly Distribution
> > in bold?  I'm confused.  Unless ESC isn't a real escape character.
> > According to http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/ansi_escapes.html,
> > ESC [ 1 m should output in bold.
> 
> I had to pass the option -R to less. Don't know why.

Because Less by default converts control characters (such as ESC) to
an ASCII representation, I think.  Otherwise, there would be no need
for the -R switch.