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From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@vt.edu>
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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
=)01:05:51 root #set TERM xterm-color
=)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.

Set doesn't do the trick.  When you set envirnment variables, try export
(since setenv didn't work)
ala
export TERM=xterm-color

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