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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!chi-news.cic.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!informatik.uni-bremen.de!nordwest.pop.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!not-for-mail From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: pcvt setup Date: 26 Feb 1996 00:07:42 +0100 Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden. Lines: 35 Message-ID: <4gqq3u$8gp@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4gmfok$hj9@soggy.eis.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: uriah.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Ernie Elu <ernie@eis.net.au> wrote: >pcvt seems to be working except for a couple of things. >Underlined text comes out as white text on an orange background with no >underline at all. VGAs cannot do underlining at all. That's why you get a different color for it. >Bold text comes out as white text on a blue background. > >Any ideas on how to get these working right? They are `right'. pcvt steals another bit from the foreground attribute, in order to have a 512-char font available. This leaves only 8 colors for the foreground, hence the usual ``high intensity'' bit is no longer available. The available attributes must be mapped to the 8 different color ``slots''. >Anyone know how to get coloured text on the 132 x 40 screen? ANSI color sequences should work, regardless of the resolution. >scon -p does not seem to do anything. It works fine for me. I've got 7 differently colored VTs, so i can optically distinguish between them. You need to understand _how_ the palette is working, however. Have a look at the examples in /usr/src/usr.sbin/pcvt/Misc/Doc/NotesAndHints. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)