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Subject: Re: colorls needs color-xterm?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.95b.970326005104.21820A-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu> from "K. Marsh" at "Mar 26, 97 00:56:18 am"
To: durang@u.washington.edu (K. Marsh)
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> BACKGROUND INFO: I'm using fbsd 2.2.1, xfree86 3.2, and colorls-2.2, but
> colorls still lists only in the foreground color.
> 
> On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Nik Clayton wrote:
> 
> > What happens if you do 'setenv TERM xterm-color' (or whatever's appropriate
> > for your shell) before you 'ls'?
> 
> 01:05:51 root #setenv TERM xterm-color
> setenv: not found
> 01:05:51 root #set TERM xterm-color

What shell are you using ?  The above error indicates that you are 
using a bourne flavor shell and thus the set TERM xterm-color
won't set your TERM variable.

The TERM variable setting is irrelevant for colorls to work (it could
be TERM=dumb as well).


> 01:05:51 root #colorls -Gl /
> total 4555
> -rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel      317 Mar 15 23:39 .cshrc
> -rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel      237 Mar 24 19:27 .profile
> -r--r--r--   1 root  wheel     3425 Mar 15 23:39 COPYRIGHT
> 
> etc, but no colors. No help. Thanks for trying.
> 
> 
> Ken Marsh
> 
> 

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Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de