From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 18 17: 6:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lunatic.oneinsane.net (lunatic.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E3637BF1A for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:06:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net) Received: by lunatic.oneinsane.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A4F3315510; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:05:47 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:05:47 -0700 From: Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Color ls Message-ID: <20000718170547.A79907@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Reply-To: insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20000718145920.B94689@wopr.caltech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from twschulz@gloria.cord.edu on Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 05:10:04PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD lunatic.oneinsane.net 4.0-STABLE X-Moon: The Moon is Waning Gibbous (95% of Full) X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-Disclaimer: I am a firm believer in RTFM X-WWW: http://www.oneinsane.net X-PGP-KEY: http://www.oneinsane.net/~insane/insane2-pgp5i.txt X-Uptime: 5:04PM up 6 days, 17:24, 1 user, load averages: 1.65, 1.34, 1.13 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was /dev/null and *void() ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Excuse me, but can anyone tell me what's going on here? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message