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From: jgy@hropus.UUCP (John Young)
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
Subject: Re: Color CURSES?
Message-ID: <102@hropus.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 17:25:44 GMT
References: <4186@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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Posted: Wed Mar 30 12:25:44 1988

> Does anyone have any pointers to a version of curses/termcap (or terminfo)
> that will support different colors and different video modes? What I'm
> looking for is something that will allow me to say "this word in green,
> this one in red, this one highlighted, this one blinking, etc." all on
> the same screen.
> 
> ANY help appreciated, but the actual software I need needs to be portable
> (i.e. NO hardcoded escape sequences!).
> 
> advTHANXance
> 
> sun!portal!cup.portal.com!Jeffrey_J_Vanepps

The curses/terminfo package shipped with UNIX SVR3.1 on the AT&T 6386WGS
supports setting of colors (attrset etc....) and also definition
of a colors' r,g,b values if this is supported in the hardware.