Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 08:45:42 -0800 From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cons25 && (midc, /stand/sysinstall, etc) Message-ID: <001301bf524b$0ed92580$6a9dc5d1@webserver>
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-----Original Message----- From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 5:00 AM Subject: Re: cons25 && (midc, /stand/sysinstall, etc) >Duke Normandin wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > > Tried your sh script below... not much luck! It rendered the prompt in my > > chosen color, but that's it. > >Wasn't that what you wanted? What else do you want? > >If you want the screen to be cleared and repainted in your >colors, maybe you should append ``clear'' after the vidcontrol >command in the script. That's what I wanted -- and did, prior to my post. It now works as I expected. I just assumed that ' midc "$@" ' would have done it all. Case closed!! > > 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. :-) An "evil" shell as the default for root? Can't help the learning curve, can it! :-) >Regards > Oliver > >PS: Quotes in mails should be put at the top of the mail, not >at the bottom. Just a small hint. ok... thanks.....duke To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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