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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:32:17 +0800 (WST)
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@obiwan.aceonline.com.au>
To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>
cc: Nik Clayton <nik@blueberry.co.uk>,
        Lars Koeller <Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de>,
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Subject: Re: colorls needs color-xterm?
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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, K. Marsh wrote:

> 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

^^^-- what shell are you using?

> 01:05:51 root #set TERM xterm-color

^^^-- for this to work in a sh-type shell, try :

export TERM=xterm-color

or 

export TERM=vt220


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