Re: 256 colors - xterm, screen, slrn

Sven Guckes <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* cga2000 <[email protected]> [2007-10-26 21:04]:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 10:41:19AM EDT, Sven Guckes wrote:
> > * cga2000 <[email protected]> [2007-10-26 14:13]:
> > > Did I mention I run everything under gnu/screen?  :-(
> > > The slsmg script displays 256 colors alright..
> > > when I run it directly on top of an xterm.
> > > But when I run it in a gnu/screen-managed terminal
> > > it only displays 8 colors (black, red, green,
> > > yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white).
>
> > well, have you installed screen with "256 color support"?
>
> Naturally.

just checking..

> Otherwise, the "perl script" would not be able to display 256 colors
> "with or without the intervening gnu/screen layer".

have you counted them all? ;-)

> > > And here's a perl script that displays 256 colors
> > > with or without the intervening gnu/screen layer:
> > available from here now - with two similar ones:
> > http://www.guckes.net/Setup/256colors2.pl    324 bytes
> > http://www.guckes.net/Setup/16colors.txt    4495 bytes
> > http://www.guckes.net/Setup/256colors2.pl   1620 bytes
>
> Thanks, but I'm getting an "internal server error".

indeed... looks like the webserver has a problem right now.
check again later, please.

> How could the two identical URL's above have a different byte count?

copy+paste error..  the second "two" was superfluous.

    http://www.guckes.net/Setup/256colors.pl     324 bytes

happy? ;)

Sven

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