Escape codes and colors in AT+T SysV.
Leslie Mikesell
les at chinet.chi.il.us
Wed Dec 6 16:16:23 AEST 1989
In article <4349 at cuuxb.ATT.COM> migh at cuuxb.UUCP (Mike Hall) writes:
>And if you want to be more device independant, try using "tput" when
>your TERM variable is set to "AT386", instead of "AT386-M" . Like this:
> TERM=AT386 export TERM
> tput setb 3 # set character cell background to color 3
> tput setf 4 # set character cell foreground to color 4
>With luck, two years from now, these will still work on your 2000x2000,
>1024 color display, and you won't have to remember the escape sequences
>for it! :-)
But it still doesn't solve the problem that the resulting display is
exceedingly ugly. Only the printed characters get the new background
color while the right-hand side of the screen remains black. Is there
any way to make all of the screen which is normally black some other
color? White-on-blue is much nicer than the standard ega/vga text.
Les Mikesell
les at chinet.chi.il.us
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