Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:20:20 +0200 From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za> To: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Allowing colors in PuTTY Message-ID: <00a901c1ca67$ec786540$b50d030a@patrick> References: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB17DDDC70@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> <20020312165620.GB98163@dan.emsphone.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Nelson" <dnelson@allantgroup.com> > 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'. > And, if you set: CLICOLOR="YES" ; export CLICOLOR in your environment, then the "-G" is always on. Regards, Patrick O'Reilly. --- Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming, or what?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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