Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:38:18 -0400 From: Brian Jackson <bjackson@conversent.com> To: "Michael A. Smith" <msmith@code-fu.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xterm-color (again!) Message-ID: <3D0F7E1A.8050504@conversent.com> References: <3D0F7887.9060104@code-fu.com>
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Michael A. Smith wrote: <snip> > I've tweaked the $TERM value on a workstation to "xterm-color" -- > nothing happens. TERM is set to xterm-color on my servers, but no > color there either. After I saw this earlier in the week (late last week?) I decided to give it a go. Here's what I did: in my .cshrc I added : alias ll ls -GlA I use Putty for my ssh client and added the following under Connection / Terminal-type string: xterm-color and everything works fine.... the server I'm connecting to is running 4.6-RELEASE #1, is headless with no X-Windows installed.. > Any clues? I'd LOVE to get this working. > > Thanks! Well, that's all I did to get it working.... Check capitalization of 'G' if you've aliased your ls commands, make sure when you're logged in that your term type is correct (i.e.; echo $TERM). Brian -- b.k.jackson@verizon.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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