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Date:      Sat, 14 Feb 1998 16:21:53 -0600 (CST)
From:      David Vondrasek <dallas.tex@airmail.net>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Bryan K. Ogawa" <bkogawa@primenet.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: XTERM
Message-ID:  <XFMail.980214162241.dallas.tex@airmail.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980215080513.02351@freebie.lemis.com>

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On 14-Feb-98 Greg Lehey wrote:
>On Sat, 14 February 1998 at  9:38:40 -0600, David Vondrasek wrote:
>>
>> On 14-Feb-98 Greg Lehey wrote:
>>> On Sat, 14 February 1998 at  1:07:54 -0800, Bryan K. Ogawa wrote:
>>>> In localhost.freebsd.questions you write:
>>>>
>>>>> I'm tring to run a program that uses ANIS color and was told I need to
>set
>>> the
>>>>> ENV VAR to * SET TERM COLOR * ? to be able to display the colors with out
>>>>> seeing ansi seq's. ANy help on HOW to set this please ?
>>>>
>>>>> I'm running 2.2.5-R with FVWM2
>>>>
>>>> I don't think the stock xterm which comes with the X distribution does
>>>> color.  I'd recommend rxvt instead, which does handle it.  Look in the
>>>> ports/packages for it.
>>>
>>> No, the standard xterm does do colour.  You need to set the TERM
>>> environment to xterm-color.  There's also a resource which governs the
>>> use of colour.  It should be enabled by default, but if you have
>>> trouble, check that you have this line in
>>> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm:
>>>
>>> *VT100*colorMode: on
>>>
>>>> rxvt is also half the memory size of xterm, so it's good even if you
>>>> don't need color.
>>>
>>> So what doesn't it do that xterm does?
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
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>>
>> Ok Thanks gGreg this is uncommented. But here is what I get, I do get color
>> thogh.
>>
>>
>>
>>   .$P`.d$P'  ,-,    $$$   $$$   $$$ $$$,a$n,       `$$$%$$$`   $$$$`
>>>  `$b,`Y$b,  $$$    $$$   $$$   `-' $$$  $$$n      ,$$$%$$$,  $$P'
>> '   $$$  $$$  $$$    $$$   $$$   ,-, $$$  $$$$    ,$$$$% %$$$$,`
>>>   $$$  $$$  $$$    $$$   $$$   $$$ $$$  $$$$  ,$$$$$$   $$$$$$,
>> '   $$$$$%P'  $$$    $$$   `Y$b,d$$P,$$$n $$P'  $$$$$$     $$$$$$ tM!
>>                                                 `#%$%'     '%$%#`
>>
>> I get the codes I guess. I see color and 1/2 of the esc. seq's, Like some of
>> the colors don't come though. But out of X it looks fine. Just under X It
>> miss's stuff. the rxvt does the same thing.
>
>This looks like an incorrect TERM setting.  What's the program?  What
>is it supposed to do?
>
>Greg
>

The program is a IRC Progrogram called BitchX , it has ANSI colors.


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David Vondrasek
E-Mail: David Vondrasek <dallas.tex@airmail.net>
Date: 14-Feb-98
Time: 16:21:55


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