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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 19:34:02 -0400
From: Reid Thompson <reid DOT thompson AT ateb DOT com>
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Subject: Re: More robust color terminal
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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

>On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Reid Thompson wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>>Both rxvt and the cmd.exe window only support 16 colors.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Welcome to 1983.  I at least hope they include those horrid CGA
>>>colors.
>>>
>>>--
>>>Gary R. Van Sickle
>>>      
>>>
>>recompiling rxvt for 256 colors is not hard.
>>
>>$ ./rxvt -help |head
>>Rxvt v2.7.10 - released: 26 MARCH 2003
>>Options:
>>XPM,transparent,utmp,menubar,multichar_languages,scrollbars=rxvt+NeXT+xterm,frills,linespace,256colour,.Xdefaults
>>    
>>
>
>Ah, I knew I saw something about rxvt supporting 256 colors somewhere.
>The man page is misleading, apparently.
>
>Any idea why the current release doesn't use 256 colors?
>	Igor
>P.S. Don't you mean "rxvt -help 2>&1 | head"?  Rxvt's help goes to stderr.
>  
>
LOL -- yeah -- i just selected the top portion to paste when it bypassed 
head.

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