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From: jdp@PacBell.COM (Jerry D. Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: Nethack in colour with System V r3.2 curses
Message-ID: <7837@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 5 Aug 90 05:51:33 GMT
References: <1990Aug3.175507.991@cti-software.nl>
Reply-To: jdp@PacBell.COM (Jerry D. Pierce)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <1990Aug3.175507.991@cti-software.nl> pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes:
>I have just finished compiling the latest and greatest
>release of nethack on ISC UNIX (System V/386 release 3.2).
>
>Everything runs just fine, but it lacks the colours that 
>were promised when defining TEXTCOLOR in include/unixconf.h.
>
>This is no curses/terminfo problem, as other applications,
>like u386mon, posted recently to comp.sources.misc work
>just fine with colour.

The fix to this is incredibly simple, but doesn't appear to be documented
anywhere in the code or release notes for nethack...

In your .profile, you will need to initialize a variable called 
NETHACKOPTIONS so that it looks similar to:   
     NETHACKHOPTIONS="standout";export NETHACKOPTIONS

If you've actually compiled everything correctly, and your terminfo supports
colour displays, then you will now have a full colour nethack.  (And your
terminfo DOES support colour, because I'm running the same OS with full-colour
nethack running just fine...)

You can set other nifty items using NETHACKOPTIONS as well, but most of 
those are pretty well documented.

   Jerry Pierce