Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:27:10 +0100 From: Lars Koeller <Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> To: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: durang@u.washington.edu (K. Marsh), nik@blueberry.co.uk, Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: colorls needs color-xterm? Message-ID: <199703261027.LAA24633@odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de> In-Reply-To: kuku's message of Wed, 26 Mar 1997 11:06:22 %2B0100. <Mutt.19970326110622.kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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---------- Hi! In reply to Christoph Kukulies who wrote: > K. Marsh writes: > > > > 01:05:51 root #setenv TERM xterm-color > > > > setenv: not found > > > > 01:05:51 root #set TERM xterm-color > > > > > > What shell are you using ? The above error indicates that you are > > > using a bourne flavor shell and thus the set TERM xterm-color > > > won't set your TERM variable. > > > > > > The TERM variable setting is irrelevant for colorls to work (it could > > > be TERM=dumb as well). > > > > > > I'm using /bin/sh. I guess you're telling me it doesn't matter, right? > > Yes. And I'm telling you that a 'setenv: not found' should immediately > ring all bells flagging you are using the wrong environment commands > or the wrong shell (bourne is export TERM=value). And that escaping > to set isn't the cure. However, the shell, the setting of the TERM variable, all this nasty things don't touch my colols behavior forever on my box (2.1.7 and XF86-32). I just make some tests. I have no further ideas, what's wrong there. Try a 'colorls -Gl / | less' and look if the escape sequences are displayed. Lars -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet: | Lars Koeller Lars_Koeller@odie.physik2.Uni-Rostock.DE | Department of Physics ftp://odie.physik2.uni-rostock.de | University of Rostock PGP-key: | Germany http://www.nic.surfnet.nl/pgp/pks-toplev.html | ----------- FreeBSD, what else? ---- http://www.freebsd.org ------------
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