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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 08:42:31 -0800 (PST)
From: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>
To: Lars Koeller <Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>
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Subject: Re: colorls needs color-xterm? 
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On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Lars Koeller wrote:

> In reply to "K. Marsh" who wrote:
>  
>>>>>SNIP<<<<<<
>  > However, the only color I can seem to get with xterm is black. I've tried
>  > various xterm switches including +cm and +dc to no avail.
> 
> Run without any problem fo me. Try this:
> 
> 	- open a xterm
> 	- execute 'colorls -Gl /'
> 
> A colored listing of / should appear. If this fails try it on the console. 
> Never hat problem with it.

Tried that.
Still no colors. Could the manager have anything to do with it? I'm using
twm via startx at the moment.


	> Do you have in the file 
	> 
	> 	/usr/X11/lib/X11/xinit/Xresources 


I Didn't, but now I do. The only line in it is:


	> 	*customization: -color 


Still no colors.

Thanks anyway!

Ken Marsh