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Date:      Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:00:50 +0100
From:      Theo PAGTZIS <T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: ls -l | more inverts colour
Message-ID:  <39AE10B2.D8B045D8@cs.ucl.ac.uk>
References:  <39AE0D0D.804963FD@cs.ucl.ac.uk> <20000831172502.G29856@wantadilla.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey wrote:

> [redirected from -net and -hackers to -questions.  This seems to be
> neither an in-depth technical discussion nor a network issue].
>

Greg,

   I am using Fbsd 4.1 stable as supped on the 21st of August. What I
mean by invert colour
is that at the console the ls changes the colour from black to white.
With the vi I can change it back to normal

Theo


>
> On Thursday, 31 August 2000 at  8:45:17 +0100, Theo PAGTZIS wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> >   for some strange reason an ls -l | more inverts the colour on an
> > xterm. If I vi a file then colour comes back to normal (I gather vi
> > resets xterm)
> >
> > Is that known?
>
> No.  It doesn't do it here.  What do you mean by "inverts the colour"?
> Does green become magenta, etc?  Does it stay that way after you exit
> more?  Which version of FreeBSD?
>
> Greg
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