Re: Default colours wrong after upgrading from 1.6.2 to 1.8.0

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 10:30:22AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Chris Green wrote:
> 
> >I have just upgraded from tin 1.6.2 to version 1.8.0.  It was all
> >fairly painless (and fixed my posting problem) however it's messed up
> >my default colours.
> >
> >My standard xterm/rxvt uses a pale grey background (almost white) and
> >black text.
> >
> >In my tinrc file I have:-
> >   col_normal=-1
> >   col_back=-1
> >but tin has set the background to black and the foreground to white
> >which is *not* what I want.  How do I get tin to leave these default
> >colours alone?
> 
> That sounds like you've built the newer version against something other
> than ncurses.  tin will only retain the -1's if it's using ncurses.
> (It's possible that there's a bug in there somewhere, of course).
> 
That was it of course, thanks!

Now everything is back to normal, I'm able to post again (on the new
news server) and colours are right.

Thanks again.

-- 
Chris Green ([email protected])

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