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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!reason.cdrom.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Color over vt100 Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:55:43 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 19 Message-ID: <317827FF.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> References: <4l4ce5$q3b@tribune.concentric.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b2 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: Howard Lamarr <Yadra@cris.com> Howard Lamarr wrote: > > How do you display color screens to dialup users? I can display color > with vidcontrol on the local console but not via vt100 or ansi > connections. Huh? That has nothing to do with the host OS. If the user has a color capable terminal or terminal emulator (e.g. a color xterm) then all you need to do is have an application which echos the appropriate escape sequences. > I see that Linux systems support color screens for remote connections, > does FreeBSD? Well, in as much as both operating systems can emit characters in the ASCII character set, sure! :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project