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Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:20:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@vt.edu>
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To: "K. Marsh" <durang@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: colorls needs color-xterm? 
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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, K. Marsh wrote:

=)BACKGROUND: can't get colors going in xterm with colorls
=)
=)On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Jason Andresen wrote:
=)
=)> What is the TERM environment variable set for?
=)
=)usually, TERM=vt102
=)
hmmm, have you tried 'xterm-color'?
vt102 is actually a rather unusual thing to set an xterm to (as far as I
know)


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