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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Escape codes and colors in AT+T SysV.
Message-ID: <1989Dec6.051623.22169@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 6 Dec 89 05:16:23 GMT
References: <8@dynasys.UUCP> <1989Dec3.025200.26143@virtech.uucp> <4349@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <4349@cuuxb.ATT.COM> migh@cuuxb.UUCP (Mike Hall) writes:

>And if you want to be more device independant, try using "tput" when
>your TERM variable is set to "AT386", instead of "AT386-M" .  Like this:

>	TERM=AT386 export TERM
>	tput setb 3		# set character cell background to color 3
>	tput setf 4		# set character cell foreground to color 4

>With luck, two years from now, these will still work on your 2000x2000,
>1024 color display, and you won't have to remember the escape sequences
>for it! :-)

But it still doesn't solve the problem that the resulting display is
exceedingly ugly.  Only the printed characters get the new background
color while the right-hand side of the screen remains black.  Is there
any way to make all of the screen which is normally black some other
color?  White-on-blue is much nicer than the standard ega/vga text.



Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us