On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 06:30:06PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:21:24PM -0400, Ed Robitaille wrote:
> > Ed Robitaille wrote>
> > > In order to turn on color in xterm enter the
> > > following line in ~/.Xdefaults
> > >
> > > *customization: -color
> > >
> > > This will turn on color in all apps that use color in an xterm window.
>
> However I'm pretty sure that color ls in freebsd only works with xterm-color
> (as far as the various xterm termcaps go). I am pretty sure the person who
> sent the original message was using freebsd. I use xterm as my termcap on
> Linux machines (even if I'm connecting from my workstations which are both
> freebsd) but i use xterm-color in freebsd. does anyone know for sure that
> you can get the xterm-xfree86 termcap working on *bsd and that color ls still
> works with it?
unless there's a FreeBSD-specific patch for it, color ls is hardcoded and
ignores the contents of the termcap file.
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