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Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 12:42:18 -0400 (edt)
From: Marc Fortier <mfortier AT site DOT uottawa DOT ca>
To: Neil Zanella <nzanella AT cs DOT mun DOT ca>
cc: Cygwin Mailing List <cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com>
Subject: Re: Colors mess up terminal
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I'll RTFM on tput.  CTRL-L refreshes the screen, but as soon as something
changes, it's screwed up again.

		Marc

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Neil Zanella wrote:

>
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Marc Fortier wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:58:15 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 05:52:14PM -0400, Marc Fortier wrote:
> > >> Hello,
> > >>
> > >>    I'm also using pine via cygwin/ssh and am getting strange display
> > >> behaviour when colours are used.  Is there a solution to this problem?
>
> To implement colors portably you must use tput instead of the bash
> escape sequences.
>
> > >> In the meantime, I'll try to come up with a script that detects
> > >> whether the term type is cygwin and run pine with no colour in that
> > >> case.
>
> tput knows about terminal capabilities and displays the colors only when
> the given terminal supports them.
>
> > > I'm running `mutt' in a console window using TERM=cygwin and have no
> > > problems with it.  Also `ls --color' works fine.  What exactly means
> > > "strange display behaviour"?  Are you actually working in a console
> > > window?
> > >
> > > Corinna
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >    I'll try to explain better.
> >
> >    I'm running W2K with all the latest cygwin stuff, including
> > openssh2.9p2.  I ssh from cygwin to a linux box.  echo $TERM replies
> > cygwin.  If I run pine without specifying to turn off colours, extra line
> > feeds are added at the bottom of the screen, whether I'm in the menu,
> > message index, or reading messages.  In the index, this means I have to
> > guess what message the cursor is over before I can open it.  Also, some
> > lines don't get updated properly a the top and bottom of the screen.
>
> Try CTRL-L to update the screen.
>
> >
> >    If I run pine with -color-style=no-colors, all is well.  But it would
> > be nice not to have to turn off colours.
> >
> > 		Marc
> >
>
>
>

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Marc Fortier, School of Information Technology & Engineering,
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phone:  (613) 562-5800 ext. 6680, fax:  (613) 562-5187
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