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Date:      Tue, 26 Nov 2002 23:42:17 +0000
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Subject:   Re: changing directory listing type
Message-ID:  <20021126234217.GC95420@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi>
In-Reply-To: <20021126173632.GY77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>
References:  <005c01c294d2$977fe6e0$0302a8c0@mike> <021701c294d4$c3583270$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <002301c29552$f4403260$0d0d4ba0@ozguro> <20021126140734.GA53644@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> <20021126173632.GY77198@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>

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On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 06:36:32PM +0100, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> # m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk / 2002-11-26 14:07:34 +0000:
> > For some reason hidden in the mists of time, the default 'xterm'
> > terminal type under FreeBSD is better known elsewhere as 'xterm-mono',
> > and you have to change to using 'xterm-color' to get the colourization
> > you want
> 
>     Check the mutt-users@ archives, for example. Thomas E. Dickey,
>     xterm's maintainer doesn't have much nice to say about the FreeBSD's
>     xterm termcap description.

Seems the xterm and xterm-color termcap entries were fixed in
5-CURRENT about two months ago by importing T Dickey's terminal
definitions from X.org.  That fixed a few other bugs and made xterm
and xterm-color aliases for the same terminal type.  Although CVS has
a comment 'MFC after: 3 days' it never has been...

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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