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Date:      Tue, 09 Jan 2001 17:32:29 +0900
From:      Kazutaka YOKOTA <yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp
Subject:   Re: escape sequence for 'Ic' terminal capability 
Message-ID:  <200101090832.RAA08905@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:05:01 %2B0200." <20010109100501.C2550@ringworld.oblivion.bg> 
References:  <20010109100501.C2550@ringworld.oblivion.bg> 

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syscons is already capable of changing forground and background colors
via escape sequences.  Is it not sufficient for your intended
application?

Kazu

>Hi,
>
>I'm thinking of messing with the syscons ioctl handler to allow setting
>of color values - all EGA- and VGA-compatible video controllers allow this.
>The idea is to later define my termcap(5) entry to let ncurses deal with
>color setting.
>
>termcap(5) lists the 'cc' - 'can change color' and 'Ic' - 'initialize color'
>capabilities.  Setting the boolean 'cc' is easy, 'Ic' however presents a bit
>of a problem to me - does anyone know what it is set to on any other terms
>so I can keep a bit of compatibility here, or do I just randomly pick an esc
>sequence, and lead on a happy existence until someone else defines this same
>esc sequence to do something else? :)
>
>G'luck,
>Peter


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