"Mike Williams" wrote:

> 
> You can read the output of perldoc perlsec on the web at:
> http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html
> 

That will help, thanks!

> What version of perl are you using?  What OS?
> 
> I've seen similar problems with perldoc a few years ago while using perl
> 5.6.1 on early versions of fedora and on windows.
> 

I have version 5.10.0 of perl as for my OS its openSUSE 11.1, this is 
happening even in perldoc perldoc so I'm going to report it to my distro.

> You can also try perldoc -t perlsec which should get rid of most of the
> ESC... stuff.
> 
> It will still leave some junk in places where perldoc is meant to display
> bold or underlined characters, but it should get rid of most of the
> terminal control stuff.
> 
> Mike



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