From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 5 02:24:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA01142 for current-outgoing; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 02:24:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from hydrogen.nike.efn.org (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.28]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA01099 for ; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 02:23:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.nike.efn.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id CAA15568; Sat, 5 Apr 1997 02:23:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19970405022353.21034@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 02:23:53 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney To: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: modify termcap to support both A[FB] and S[fb]... References: <19970404235636.44208@hydrogen.nike.efn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.67 In-Reply-To: ; from ??????????????? on Sat, Apr 05, 1997 at 01:48:32PM +0400 Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney Organization: Cu Networking X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-960801-SNAP i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ??????????????? scribbled this message on Apr 5: > On Fri, 4 Apr 1997, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > > > Sb (setb) stays as "set background color" > > > AB (setab) stays as "set ANSI background color" > > > > > > similar things for Sf/AF > > > > could you point me to the document which says this?? I like to make sure > > this is the case... all terminfo_examples.doc says is: > > set_a_foreground "setaf" str "AF" > > or > > set_foreground "setf" str "Sf" > > man terminfo in SVr4 and ncurses include/Caps (not FreeBSD version) looks like I'm going to be updating our terminfo_examples.doc... thanks for the pointers... > > > The difference is that S* entries could put any color (like user-defined) > > > while A* entries restricts to ANSI colors only. > > > > hmm... but what about the terminals were you define the colors to be ansi > > colors (like I've almost done with my tek)... also.. do you propose to > > make ALL applications understand the difference between the two?? > > I mean termcap way of redefining colors only (this capability usually > taking 3 parameters like RGB or HSL) ahh... ok... thanks... this makes the above clearer... > > you CAN change the console's colors... maybe not through anything that > > FreeBSD provides... but you can do this... > > So, it will be your responsibility... heh... I was thinking of writing to the PAL entries to change 'em... but your most recent statement above makes what I said (about being able to change syscons's colors) void and pointless... > > also.. are you going to update ansi's entry too?? > > All incorrect Sf/Sb just changed to AF/AB, I don't add new ones. ok... I'll update the ansi entry when I'm through making all my mods... hopefully by then I'll have a better tek4107 entry.. :) thanks again for the pointers (and info)... ttyl.. -- John-Mark Cu Networking Modem/FAX: +1 541 683 6954 Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD