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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:30:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@vt.edu>
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To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>
cc: 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, K. Marsh wrote:

=)On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Lars Koeller wrote:
=)
=)>  > >>>>>SNIP<<<<<<
=)>  > >  > However, the only color I can seem to get with xterm is black.
=)
=)> Do you ever try the console? Thats the first step I think.
=)
=)
=)Not sure what you mean by console. If that's the xterm that, when exited,
=)will TERM twm, then I've tried it and all I get is black.
=)
=)If it's a virtual terminal, then colorls produces nice colors there.
=)
=)I've tried it in the following xterms:
=)
=)	xterm &
=)	xterm -ls &
=)	xterm +cm &
=)	xterm +cm -ls &
=)
What is the TERM environment variable set for?

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