From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 11:38:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luna.cdrom.com (luna.cdrom.com [204.216.28.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130EB37B5CE for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 11:38:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@luna.cdrom.com) Received: by luna.cdrom.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C746331F8; Thu, 25 May 2000 11:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 11:38:46 -0700 From: Jim Mock To: Brennan W Stehling Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: colors in telnet? Message-ID: <20000525113846.B500@luna.cdrom.com> Reply-To: jim@luna.cdrom.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.2i In-Reply-To: ; from brennan@offwhite.net on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:38:28AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 May 2000 at 10:38:28 -0500, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > I use a BetterTelnet, the continuation of the NCSA telnet project for > the Macintosh. (I use to to talk to FreeBSD) > > It has support VT100 and VT220, but I am not sure how to do the > colors. With a default install of some linux distros "ls" listings > and other applications have color coding for all kinds of useful > things, but I am not sure how to turn that on for FreeBSD. I have > tried in the past, but was not successful. > > Anyone know of how to do this? Anyone care to share a useful > .profile? Install gnuls (which Linux uses as the default ls) or colorls from /usr/ports/misc. Then RTFM for the options you want :-) - jim -- - jim mock - bsdi - freebsd documentation project - jim@luna.cdrom.com - - phone: 1.925.691.2800 x.3814 - fax: 1.925.674.0821 - jim@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message