From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 11 5:19:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.toronto.istar.net (mail1.toronto.istar.net [209.89.75.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F79A37B614 for ; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 05:19:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from genisis@istar.ca) Received: from ip130.kingston.dialup.canada.psi.net ([154.5.64.130]) by mail1.toronto.istar.net with esmtp (Exim 2.02 #1) id 13NDmY-0007ac-00; Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:19:27 -0400 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:21:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Dru To: Randal Masutani Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can't get ansi color codes to work with sc0 console In-Reply-To: <399341E3.28197.49E6E6@localhost> 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, 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message