From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 2 2:23:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4659237B403 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 02:23:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f929NB670938; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 02:23:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Jason C. Wells" , "Giorgos Keramidas" Cc: Subject: RE: Change Colors on VT220 Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 02:23:11 -0700 Message-ID: <004e01c14b23$db010420$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jason C. Wells >Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 7:52 AM >To: Giorgos Keramidas >Cc: Jason C. Wells; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: Change Colors on VT220 > > >On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >> Jason C. Wells wrote: >> > How do I change the colors for a telnet session that uses VT200 >emulation? >> >> Subject says vt220, body vt200. >> Do these terminals types even support color? >> I was almost certain they don't. > >VT220 was the terminal. Yes, as I look closer, Kermit support VT220 with >color "extensions." As I looked into the matter another document stated >that VT220 was not a color terminal. So color that I see is purely client >side. > >Can anyone recommend a terminal type that does support color? > the most common one of these is the ANSI type. Unfortunately, many terminal vendors took liberties and there's many variants floating around. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message