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Date:      Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:21:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Dru <genisis@istar.ca>
To:        Randal Masutani <randal@hits.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't get ansi color codes to work with sc0 console
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008110817260.5420-100000@genisis.istar.ca>
In-Reply-To: <399341E3.28197.49E6E6@localhost>

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On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Randal Masutani wrote:

> I am not able to get any ANSI color codes to 
> work with the standard sc0 console since 
> installing 4.1 release.
> 
> All other releases I had no problem.  Has anyone 
> tried using something like:
> 
> set prompt="^[[1;33;41m[`whoami`]^[[1;37;40m "
> 
> All I get for the prompt is the exact same 
> string between the quotes as shown above without 
> any color.
> 
> Is there something new in RELEASE 4.1 that 
> handles color ANSI code differently?

I had this same problem when I upgraded to 4.1 as I had saved my .cshrc
file. Do a search through the manpage for tcsh for "ls_colors" to see the
different syntax for tcsh. I've actually found it easier to use, just
different.

Dru



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