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Date:      Wed, 19 Jul 2000 15:25:01 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>
Cc:        Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: Color ls 
Message-ID:  <200007191425.PAA07457@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu>  of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 17:11:41 PDT." <20000718171141.A97774@wopr.caltech.edu> 

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> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:08:41AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> 
> > joe@cuddy[503]: export TERM=xterm-color
> > joe@cuddy[504]: vi
> > xterm-color: Unknown terminal type
> > Visual needs addressable cursor or upline capability
> > :q
> > joe@cuddy[505]: uname -a
> > SunOS cuddy 5.6 Generic_105181-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-1
> 
> That's not the issue.
> 
> What we want to do is have TERM=xterm be the same as xterm-color
> is now.
> 
> If you log in to a FreeBSD box from your Sun, and *then* set
> TERM=xterm-color and run things on the FreeBSD box, do the color
> escape sequences screw anything up?

Despite being against ls -G, I'd certainly advocate this change...  
I'm surprised this hasn't already been done.  The never-to-be-committed 
evil is ``alias ls="ls -G"'' in /etc/profile !

> -- 
> Matthew Hunt <mph@astro.caltech.edu> * Stay close to the Vorlon.
> http://www.pobox.com/~mph/           *

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