From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 5: 1:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92AB814F9A for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 05:01:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA25269 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:01:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:01:05 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199912291301.OAA25269@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cons25 && (midc, /stand/sysinstall, etc) Organization: Administration TU Clausthal Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Duke Normandin wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > Tried your sh script below... not much luck! It rendered the prompt in my > chosen color, but that's it. Wasn't that what you wanted? What else do you want? If you want the screen to be cleared and repainted in your colors, maybe you should append ``clear'' after the vidcontrol command in the script. > A curious observation though, midc doesn't > trash the screen border that I have set up using vidcontrol; only the fg > and bg colors. Did your script work on your system? I haven't tried it (I don't use colors). It should work exactly as if you type the commands manually in your shell. > BTW, would the script > be identical in csh? No. You don't write scripts in csh; it's evil. :-) Regards Oliver PS: Quotes in mails should be put at the top of the mail, not at the bottom. Just a small hint. -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message