From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 12:21: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C46DA150CF for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 12:20:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA22425; Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:18:46 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:18:46 +1300 (NZDT) From: Jonathan Chen To: Peter Elsner Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FoxPro 2.6 (SCO Unix) On FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990304134249.0092bc60@srigate.srisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Peter Elsner wrote: [..] > On Monday, we installed FreeBSD 3.1 on another machine and then installed > FoxPro 2.6. It works. There's only one problem, the colors are not > functioning... Everything is black & white. > > Our program (written in Foxpro) is color sensitive and requires the colors. > It's not an X-Windows terminal, just standard text. I suspect that this may be related to termcap or terminfo entries. If I recall correctly, some versions of terminfo have color capability built into them - which Foxpro may be using. Try comparing the terminfo entry for the console or terminals with that from the SCO box against that on the FreeBSD box. Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message