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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 00:56:18 -0800 (PST)
From: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>
To: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk>
cc: Lars Koeller <Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>,
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Subject: Re: colorls needs color-xterm?
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BACKGROUND INFO: I'm using fbsd 2.2.1, xfree86 3.2, and colorls-2.2, but
colorls still lists only in the foreground color.

On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Nik Clayton wrote:

> What happens if you do 'setenv TERM xterm-color' (or whatever's appropriate
> for your shell) before you 'ls'?

01:05:51 root #setenv TERM xterm-color
setenv: not found
01:05:51 root #set TERM xterm-color
01:05:51 root #colorls -Gl /
total 4555
-rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel      317 Mar 15 23:39 .cshrc
-rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel      237 Mar 24 19:27 .profile
-r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     3425 Mar 15 23:39 COPYRIGHT

etc, but no colors. No help. Thanks for trying.


Ken Marsh