From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 20 17: 1:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from monsoon.mail.pipex.net (monsoon.mail.pipex.net [158.43.128.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD54615393 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 17:01:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mark@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org) Received: (qmail 22437 invoked from network); 21 Dec 1999 01:01:11 -0000 Received: from useraj78.uk.uudial.com (HELO marder-1.) (62.188.133.207) by smtp.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 21 Dec 1999 01:01:11 -0000 Received: (from mark@localhost) by marder-1. (8.9.3/8.8.8) id BAA00709; Tue, 21 Dec 1999 01:01:10 GMT (envelope-from mark) Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 01:01:09 +0000 From: Mark Ovens To: "Donald J . Maddox" Cc: Ben Smithurst , "Alexey N. Dokuchaev" , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Colour manpages Message-ID: <19991221010109.C454@marder-1> References: <19991220175717.A1054@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <19991221004329.A454@marder-1> <19991220195344.A21265@dmaddox.conterra.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <19991220195344.A21265@dmaddox.conterra.com> Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 07:53:45PM -0500, Donald J . Maddox wrote: > Or, more simply, type: > > $ vidcontrol show > Yes, but that doesn't give the ANSI codes needed for the ESC sequences. > :-) > > On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 12:43:29AM +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: > > For a visual "list" of colour combinations, run this script (the > > numbers along the top of the display are the bg colours and the ones > > at the left are the fg colours): > > > > #!/bin/sh > > # Display ANSI colours. > > # > > esc="\033[" > > echo -e "\t 40\t 41\t 42\t 43\t 44 45\t46\t 47" > > for fore in 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37; do > > line1="$fore " > > line2=" " > > for back in 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47; do > > line1="${line1}${esc}${back};${fore}m Normal ${esc}0m" > > line2="${line2}${esc}${back};${fore};1m Bold ${esc}0m" > > done > > echo -e "$line1\n$line2" > > done > > > > > > > > HTH > > > > > -- > > > Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D > > > ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and > > > | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > -- > > "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture > > that allows you to install Windows too ;" > > -Matthew D. Fuller > > ________________________________________________________________ > > FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org > > My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ > > mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- "there's a long-standing bug relating to the x86 architecture that allows you to install Windows too ;" -Matthew D. Fuller ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message