Re: raw ansi-escape-codes in viewer?

[Miven Dooligan <dooligan intergate ca>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Miven Dooligan wrote:
>
> > Is there a way of getting the viewer to display the
> > raw escape-codes in a file, like less -R?
>
> No.  It would create mess on the screen.  It's explained in "man less".  
> Mess on the screen is bad in a program that can easily delete whole
> directories.
What exactly are F8 & F9 supposed to do?