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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2000 11:38:46 -0700
From:      Jim Mock <jim@luna.cdrom.com>
To:        Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: colors in telnet?
Message-ID:  <20000525113846.B500@luna.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005251031220.48117-100000@home.offwhite.net>; from brennan@offwhite.net on Thu, May 25, 2000 at 10:38:28AM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0005251031220.48117-100000@home.offwhite.net>

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On Thu, 25 May 2000 at 10:38:28 -0500, Brennan W Stehling wrote:
> I use a BetterTelnet, the continuation of the NCSA telnet project for
> the Macintosh.  (I use to to talk to FreeBSD)
> 
> It has support VT100 and VT220, but I am not sure how to do the
> colors.  With a default install of some linux distros "ls" listings
> and other applications have color coding for all kinds of useful
> things, but I am not sure how to turn that on for FreeBSD.  I have
> tried in the past, but was not successful.
> 
> Anyone know of how to do this?  Anyone care to share a useful
> .profile?

Install gnuls (which Linux uses as the default ls) or colorls from
/usr/ports/misc.  Then RTFM for the options you want :-)

- jim

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