From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 12 8:56:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F23C37B43F for ; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:56:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g2CGuM1v000972; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:56:22 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g2CGuLJV000954; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:56:21 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:56:20 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: "Morse, Richard E." Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Allowing colors in PuTTY Message-ID: <20020312165620.GB98163@dan.emsphone.com> References: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDC70@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDC70@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Mar 12), Morse, Richard E. said: > Hi! I have a headless freebsd machine, which I ssh into via PuTTY. > How do I tell FreeBSD to use ANSI color codes? For some reason, my > terminal is set by default to xterm, and it won't display colors (at > least, 'ls -G' doesn't display any colors...) In the putty config dialog box, 'connection' section, set Terminal-type to 'xterm-color'. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message