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Date:      Tue, 12 Mar 2002 10:56:20 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG>
Cc:        "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Allowing colors in PuTTY
Message-ID:  <20020312165620.GB98163@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDC70@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu>
References:  <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDC70@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu>

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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'.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com

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