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From: jboggs@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Subject: Re: Reverse video is blank reverse blocks in NetBSD-0.9
Message-ID: <1993Sep2.125633.29876@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Sender: jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs)
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
References: <CCn7FF.7nL@cyb.fred.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 12:56:33 GMT
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From article <CCn7FF.7nL@cyb.fred.com>, by loodvrij@cyb.fred.com (Bruce 'Loodvrij' Keeler):
> In article <1993Aug30.050447.14164@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> jboggs@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (John D. Boggs) writes:
>>As the subject says, when an application calls for reverse video
>>what I get instead is a block of white. Has anyone else run into
>>this problem? Is it my hardware?
>>
>>486DX-33, 256K cache
>>Trident TVGA 8900CL card, Samsung mono monitor
>
> Its because you are using the wrong terminal emulation on the console. Youre
> probably using something like vt100 which uses the ESC[%d;%dr code to change
> scrolling regions. Unfortunately, under the pc3 emulation, this sets the color
> that reverse video comes out in. The solution of course, is to set your TERM
> variable to pc3.
>
It is. Switching to ansi makes it go away, but of course then I don't
get reverse video.
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John D. Boggs jdb@erato.iowa-city.ia.us
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