Re: color names

Joe Koenig <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Alain Bench <Alain Bench <[email protected]>> wrote:

> Slrn can combine colors #0 to #7 with the /blink/ attribute to get paper
> colors #8 to #15.

BTW: Is there a way to query, interactively, whether this attribute is set? 


> setup your terminal so /blink/ does bright paper.

How does that work?


>  Use a 16 color terminal.

I'm afraid I have to ask: How do I find out whether my terminal  is a 
"16 color terminal"?
Is it "tput colors"?

  $ tput colors
  8

  $ TERM=xterm-256color tput colors
  tput: unknown terminal "xterm-256color"

  $ TERM=xterm-color tput colors
  8

However:
  XTerm*color15: LightSlateGray
seems to be interpreted correctly, So, I'd guess I have a "16 bit color 
Terminal", right? 

>     Modern Xterms support 256 colors. Try to use a terminfo entry
> declaring them all: Export TERM=xterm-256color

My $TERM is set to "xterm-color", which seemed to work quite quite fine, until 
now.  Is there, or should there be, a difference btw. "xterm-color" 
and "xterm-256color"
(as you might have guessed: I have no clue about terminfo)

Thank you

   Joe

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