From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Dec 2 08:03:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA07086 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:03:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail2.panix.com (mail2.panix.com [166.84.0.213]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA07079 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 08:03:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tomg@nrnet.org) Received: from mailhost.nrnet.org (tomg@mailhost.nrnet.org [166.84.192.39]) by mail2.panix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/PanixM1.3) with ESMTP id LAA27167 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:03:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (tomg@localhost) by mailhost.nrnet.org (8.8.7/8.8.4) with SMTP id LAA01398 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:04:58 -0500 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:04:57 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Good To: "freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: trifecta of beginner questions In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, John Sconiers wrote: Thanks folks for the speedy replies! > > 1) What is the equivalent of the UnixWare setcolour/Linux setterm > > command to set fg/bg console screen colours? > > good question...I have and idea but defer to someone else.... Found it - this appears to be the 'vidcontrol' cmd. Can't try it right now as I'm stuck on a UnixWare box...but the man page looks good! > depending on your installation it may be there...did you install off of a > cd-rom...over the net...did you download all the ports to your computer.. > If you used a cd-rom it's probaly on the cd-rom if you downloaded over the > net....well the easiest way to do it woulld be to go into /usr/ports and > run do a make install.. Right! Disk 4 of the Walnut Creek set has some tarballs...one thing I find amusing is that the japanese version of pine is in the packages set on disk1 but std pine is buried. Hee hee... Thanks again! Cheers, Tom ----------- Sisters of Charity Medical Center ---------- Department of Psychiatry ---- Thomas Good, System Administrator North Richmond CMHC/Residential Services Phone: 718-354-5528 75 Vanderbilt Ave, Quarters 8 Fax: 718-354-5056 Staten Island, NY 10304 www.panix.com/~ugd ---- Powered by PostgreSQL 6.3.2 / Perl 5.004 / DBI-0.91::DBD-PG-0.69 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message