Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!virtech!cpcahil
From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: color for 386/ix
Summary: see terminfo(4)
Keywords: color consoles
Message-ID: <1990Mar5.125403.10941@virtech.uucp>
Date: 5 Mar 90 12:54:03 GMT
References: <511241@nstar.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <511241@nstar.UUCP> larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) writes:
>I received a "setcolor" utility for 386 unix and it works until 
>I bring up vi - in which case the console is reset to white on 
>black.

This can be fixed by modifying the terminfo definition for AT386 (or whatever
you are using for your terminal type).  I believe the parameter is something
like initc for "initialize color", but I'm not positive. You should
add in the sequence to set the appropriate color for initc.  You might 
want to have several AT386-xx entries for each color path and set up your
setcolor utility as a shell function which will change your TERM environment
variable to match the color settings.  Review the terminfo(4) man page
for more information.


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