From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 21 14:17:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 682AA37B402 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 14:17:26 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 71090 invoked by uid 100); 21 Feb 2002 22:17:25 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15477.29173.293017.922052@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:17:25 -0600 To: Stuart Tanner Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: terminal color problems In-Reply-To: <54256899@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stuart Tanner types: > On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 18:44, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > > which doesn't use "tc=". IIRC, I read in some XFree86 document that > > that one should be used, but I might have just noticed it there and > > thought it sounded better than "xterm" (with tc=vt220). > > Refer to http://dickey.his.com/xterm/xterm.faq.html (the section is > "What $TERM should I use?") for the reason for not using "xterm". To save others the trouble, the reason is that xterm-color doesn't paint the window in a different color than the default background color as efficiently as possible. > > But then all of these can cause problems when people expect you to be > > using "cons25" like when I was complaining about a problem with "groff > > -mandoc -Tascii /tmp/ipfw.8 | less" as suggested by the mdoc man page. > > I got the impression that FreeBSD is "designed for cons25". > Are you sure your problem with groff wasn't due to a broken termcap > entry or the terminal not behaving as advertised? I expect so. doing "groff ipfw.8.gz | groff -mandoc -Tascii | less" worked like a charm for me. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message