From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 26 01:55:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA00208 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 01:55:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA00197 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 01:55:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA23211; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:55:11 +0100 (MET) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id LAA13391; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:06:23 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:06:22 +0100 From: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) To: durang@u.washington.edu (K. Marsh) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies), nik@blueberry.co.uk, Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: colorls needs color-xterm? References: <199703260939.KAA13257@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58e Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from K. Marsh on Mar 26, 1997 01:36:38 -0800 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk K. Marsh writes: > > > 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). > > > I'm using /bin/sh. I guess you're telling me it doesn't matter, right? Yes. And I'm telling you that a 'setenv: not found' should immediately ring all bells flagging you are using the wrong environment commands or the wrong shell (bourne is export TERM=value). And that escaping to set isn't the cure. > > Ken > -- --Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de