From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 29 13:19:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.cybersurf.net (smtp1.cybersurf.net [209.197.145.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F88156D1 for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 13:19:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from 01031149@3web.net) Received: from webserver ([209.197.157.106]) by smtp1.cybersurf.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.05) with SMTP id FNITYK00.3NL for ; Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:20:44 -0700 Message-ID: <001301bf524b$0ed92580$6a9dc5d1@webserver> From: "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net> To: Subject: Re: cons25 && (midc, /stand/sysinstall, etc) Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 08:45:42 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wednesday, December 29, 1999 5:00 AM Subject: Re: cons25 && (midc, /stand/sysinstall, etc) >Duke Normandin wrote in list.freebsd-questions: > > Tried your sh script below... not much luck! It rendered the prompt in my > > chosen color, but that's it. > >Wasn't that what you wanted? What else do you want? > >If you want the screen to be cleared and repainted in your >colors, maybe you should append ``clear'' after the vidcontrol >command in the script. That's what I wanted -- and did, prior to my post. It now works as I expected. I just assumed that ' midc "$@" ' 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