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Date:      Wed, 2 Oct 2002 14:36:34 -0700
From:      Lou Katz <lou@metron.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xterm and colors
Message-ID:  <20021002143633.A22987@metron.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020928085558.D307@host1.myhost.mydomain>; from fh31415@gmx.net on Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 08:55:58AM %2B0200
References:  <20020928005410.A37493@insightbb.com> <20020928085558.D307@host1.myhost.mydomain>

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I hate all this color stuff. HOW DO I TURN IT OFF? I am colorblind.


On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 08:55:58AM +0200, Frank Heitmann wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 12:54:10AM -0500, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
> 
> > How do i set the colors so when I just use "ls" I get the color
> > directories and the rest of colors? I just want the basic colors
> > that I can get without having to do alot of configuring.
> Have you set your TERM environment variable to 'xterm-color' ?
> 
> The way to do this differs depending on the shell you use, if it's
> bash just type:
> export TERM=xterm-color
> 
> if it's csh type:
> setenv TERM xterm-color
> 
> (There are more shells, look at the man page of your shell for more
> details!)
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Cheers and Good Morning :)
> Frank
> 
> P.S. I have read that in new versions of FreeBSD the TERM variable
> is set to xterm-color by default, but I have forgotten if this is
> already done in -stable or if this is done in -current - and I
> don't know which version of FreeBSD you are running :)
> 
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