Subject: Re: Ansi escapes to set color
To: None <sam@wa4phy.async.com>
From: Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/15/1995 08:46:00
> For some reason, using ansi color escapes in my .profile won't set
> the background and foreground colors, except my prompt is always
> yellow. No combination I've tried will change it. Is color not
> supported that way? If not, tell me how to set my screen to a blue
> background and white foreground.
The pccons terminal driver doesn't support ANSI color escapes. This
is probably a desirable option. Maybe someday I will hack it in.
(but since I spend all of my time in X I probably wont)