Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:17:25 -0600 From: "Mike Meyer" <mwm-dated-1014761845.eaf4b3@mired.org> To: Stuart Tanner <stuart@sigterm.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terminal color problems Message-ID: <15477.29173.293017.922052@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <54256899@toto.iv>
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Stuart Tanner <stuart@sigterm.com> types: > On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 18:44, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > which doesn't use "tc=". IIRC, I read in some XFree86 document that > > that one should be used, but I might have just noticed it there and > > thought it sounded better than "xterm" (with tc=vt220). > > Refer to http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html (the section is > "What $TERM should I use?") for the reason for not using "xterm". To save others the trouble, the reason is that xterm-color doesn't paint the window in a different color than the default background color as efficiently as possible. > > But then all of these can cause problems when people expect you to be > > using "cons25" like when I was complaining about a problem with "groff > > -mandoc -Tascii /tmp/ipfw.8 | less" as suggested by the mdoc man page. > > I got the impression that FreeBSD is "designed for cons25". > Are you sure your problem with groff wasn't due to a broken termcap > entry or the terminal not behaving as advertised? I expect so. doing "groff ipfw.8.gz | groff -mandoc -Tascii | less" worked like a charm for me. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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