Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:05:47 -0700 From: Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <20000718170547.A79907@lunatic.oneinsane.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.10.10007181706300.15130-100000@gloria.cord.edu>; from twschulz@gloria.cord.edu on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:10:04PM -0500 References: <20000718145920.B94689@wopr.caltech.edu> <Pine.BSI.4.10.10007181706300.15130-100000@gloria.cord.edu>
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Trenton Schulz was heard blurting out:
> On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Matthew Hunt wrote:
>
> > 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)?
>
> I pretty sure that is the culprit. I know that on a sparc-netbsd machine I
> login to on a regular basis doesn't have an xterm-color. And I've known
> friends who've been bitten by this on other Unices. In the end, it's
> probably better just to modify .Xdefaults to make your xterm "look color"
>
How does one in .Xdefaults make your xterm "look color"
TIA
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The InSaNe One rm -rf *
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Excuse me, but can anyone tell me what's going on here?
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