The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/34282; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Dickey <dickey@radix.net>
To: George Georgalis <george@galis.org>
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-amd64/34282: console color is broken on amd64 when using pkgsrc/misc/screen on amd64
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 10:04:43 UTC

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 On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 08:15:32PM +0000, George Georgalis wrote:
 > I've localized the problem to the .Xdefaults entry:
 
 The report was for "OOPS", which would come from an application running
 within xterm (or whatever terminal).  There's no mechanism that would
 make xterm send "OOPS" by itself that I can think of.
  
 > xterm*colorRVMode: true
 > 
 >                Specifies whether characters with the
 >                reverse attribute should be displayed
 >                in color.
 > 
 > when set to false, the default. I get no OOPS for color sequences
 > in screen.  I don't have a solution for color reverse mode.
 
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 Thomas E. Dickey
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