"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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/