Re: MONOCHROME mutt/mc, COLOR ls/elvis ...?

[Will Trillich <will@serensoft.com>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2000 at 12:12:52PM -0400, Christopher Mosley wrote:
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> 
> On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Christopher Mosley wrote:
> I see you are using a mac and telneting into a linux machine?
> Your telnet has vt220 emulation?
> You are setting the environmental on the remote?

right. macs, being single-user*, have no 'environment' to set.
none to speak of, anyhow. (and certainly no command-line
to set it with!)

*until osX which is supposedly unix-derived...?

> Well, a vt220 is _not_ a color terminal even though emulations might
> support color, That is: the vt220 terminfo does not describe a color term.
> You either have to force color although this might be the default
>  - this capability has to do with the the way the program
> (mutt, mc, ls, lynx etc.) was written and the curses library used to
>  compile. If the terminal types are limited on your mac telnet program
> and you have to use a vt220 you could possibly add color to the terminfo
> description if the linux programs on the remote do not force color.

ah. i woulda swore vt220 was color. my bad!

so then i'm trying to have mutt misbehave in the same
way 'mc -c' and 'elvis' and 'ls' do. :)

thanks for the info. i have a few ideas to try now.

> Also, when you post, you should start out explaining the problem
> rather than having it extracted gradually by a guessing game.
> If I did not guess right please let me know :) and I'll make
> another guess.

i was just following the linux documentation model:
"all the info is right there (if you know where to look,
and have the temerity/nads to do so)..."

:)

thanks for your help!