From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 18 14:59:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.102.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CEA837B896; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:59:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA94887; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:59:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 14:59:20 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <20000718145920.B94689@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <20000718140646.B76011@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from kris@FreeBSD.ORG on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 02:16:32PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 02:16:32PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > > > With the change to ls having the 'G' switch addded is there a way to get > > it to show colors in other than cons25. I read the man page and it is > > not clear on this. > > Use a termcap that supports colours. For example, "xterm-color" in an xterm. Does anyone know why XFree86's xterm, as shipped, doesn't set TERM to xterm-color? Is it for fear of an xterm-color entry not existing (either on the local machine, or machines you telnet/ssh to from the xterm)? -- Matthew Hunt * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message