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Subject: Re: Allowing colors in PuTTY
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 10:20:20 +0200
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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.
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