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From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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Subject: Re: sysinstall colours
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* Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> wrote:
> This have nothing to do with ncurses, colors you like  simple can not
> be displayed in current syscons(4) and making support for 256 colors
> or even true bit color in sysinstall(so that it looks amazing in
> konsole) is waste of time.

Yes. As of recently, our terminal emulator gained 256 color support, but
this gets smashed down to 8 colors, simply because Syscons cannot handle
more than 16 foreground and 8 background colors.

This is how colors are converted:

	http://80386.nl/pub/xterm-256.png
	http://80386.nl/pub/teken-256.png

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 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
 WWW: http://80386.nl/

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