Color problem

Well I thought it was all sorted, however my new tin installation
seems to have a problem with the colours.

I copied the .tin/tinrc file and all was well *except* for the default
colours, I have col_normal=-1 and col_back=-1 so that I get the
existing terminal screen colours.  This works on the system where I
originally had tin installed but on my home system tin changes the
colours.

I have my terminal windows set up with a light grey background (almost
white) and use black text for normal text.  This works fine with mutt
and when running tin on the remote system but when running tin on my
home system tin changes the background to black and the foreground to
white.  Why does it do this with the variables set to -1?

Where is tin getting these colours from?

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Chris Green ([email protected])

    "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."