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From: Lars Koeller <Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>
To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies)
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Subject: Re: colorls needs color-xterm? 
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Hi!

In reply to Christoph Kukulies who wrote:
 
 > K. Marsh writes:
 > > > > 01:05:51 root #setenv TERM xterm-color
 > > > > setenv: not found
 > > > > 01:05:51 root #set TERM xterm-color
 > > > 
 > > > What shell are you using ?  The above error indicates that you are 
 > > > using a bourne flavor shell and thus the set TERM xterm-color
 > > > won't set your TERM variable.
 > > > 
 > > > The TERM variable setting is irrelevant for colorls to work (it could
 > > > be TERM=dumb as well).
 > > 
 > > 
 > > I'm using /bin/sh.  I guess you're telling me it doesn't matter, right?
 > 
 > Yes. And I'm telling you that a 'setenv: not found' should immediately
 > ring all bells flagging you are using the wrong environment commands
 > or the wrong shell (bourne is export TERM=value). And that escaping
 > to set isn't the cure.

However, the shell, the setting of the TERM variable, all this nasty things 
don't touch my colols behavior forever on my box (2.1.7 and XF86-32). I just 
make some tests.

I have no further ideas, what's wrong there. Try a 'colorls -Gl / | less' and 
look if the escape sequences are displayed.

Lars
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