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Date:      Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:59:20 -0700
From:      Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Color ls
Message-ID:  <20000718145920.B94689@wopr.caltech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007181416130.20886-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 02:16:32PM -0700
References:  <20000718140646.B76011@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007181416130.20886-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 02:16:32PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote:
> 
> > With the change to ls having the 'G' switch addded is there a way to get
> > it to show colors in other than cons25. I read the man page and it is
> > not clear on this.
> 
> Use a termcap that supports colours.

For example, "xterm-color" in an xterm.

Does anyone know why XFree86's xterm, as shipped, doesn't set
TERM to xterm-color?  Is it for fear of an xterm-color entry
not existing (either on the local machine, or machines you
telnet/ssh to from the xterm)?

-- 
Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * UNIX is a lever for the
http://www.pobox.com/~mph/           * intellect. -J.R. Mashey


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