From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 30 18:59:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.greatbasin.net (mail.greatbasin.net [207.228.35.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1205814C38 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:59:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Received: from jgl.reno.nv.us (rno-max1-06.gbis.net [207.228.60.70]) by mail.greatbasin.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA14156; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:57:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from danco (danco.home [10.0.0.2]) by jgl.reno.nv.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA25172; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:57:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@jgl.reno.nv.us) Message-ID: <008201bef354$2658aa60$0200000a@danco.home> From: "Dan O'Connor" To: "Pavel V. Antipov" , Subject: Re: About gettytab Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:57:12 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >How can I make color letters (and/or background) in string which >speciefied in "default" section of /etc/gettytab ? Use ANSI Escape sequences, e.g. 'ESC[1m' (bright text). There's a good reference at http://www.wco.com/~kin/ref/computer/escape/out.html. The ESC character is 0x1B (027d or \033), not the text 'ESC'. Use your editor's ASCII code tool to enter the code for the ESC character. --Dan ** The thing I like most about Windows 98 is... ** You can download FreeBSD with it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message