Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!ucsd!dog.ee.lbl.gov!epb2.lbl.gov!envbvs From: envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: By popular demand... color xterm! Message-ID: <1990Sep13.090445@epb2.lbl.gov> Date: 13 Sep 90 16:04:45 GMT References: Sender: usenet@dog.ee.lbl.gov Reply-To: envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith) Distribution: comp Organization: lbl Lines: 28 X-Local-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 90 09:06:06 PDT In article , tomw@orac.esd.sgi.com (Tom Weinstein) writes: |> Due to the great demand, I have placed a complete copy of the xterm |> source we have been hacking on here at SGI on expo. Features include: |> |> 1) A mostly rewritten and cleaned up main.c |> 2) A new scrolling option. Makes scrolling work faster on some servers, |> and looks better too. |> 3) Support for ANSI ISO 6429 color text! Ever wanted to have bold be a |> different color, or have a weird, multi-colored prompt? Now you can! |> 4) ANSI color was good enough for us. We also have special escape |> sequences to change the background color, primary text color, cursor |> color, and mouse colors on the fly! |> |> You an find this stuff on expo.lcs.mit.edu in contrib/color_xterm.tar.Z |> |> Check it out. Compile it for your machines. Use it. Enjoy it. Just |> please don't ask us to support it! If you have any questions, I can be |> contacted as tomw@esd.sgi.com until Sept 19th, and after that as |> tom@bears.ucsb.edu. Don't let the .Z in the name fool you. It is not really compressed, so just use 'tar xvf color_xterm.tar.Z' to extract the source. -- Brian V. Smith (bvsmith@lbl.gov) Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.