On Jun 15 at 19:37, Lubomir Sedlacik spoke:

> On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 07:28:01PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote:
> > This works on i386 but doesn't seem to work on alpha.  I have
> > TERM=xterm-16color. Is there anything else needed?
> 
> well, i always use TERM=screen because i tend to login from/to various
> OSes and this is the one which works in colors for me with every
> application i use (mutt, vim, slrn, irssi, silc, etc.) without any
> problems.
> 
> you may try TERM=ansi, xterm-color, color_xterm or rxvt

On some I get white background but no colors, on some I get colors
but gray background.
(I have: color normal black brightwhite)

-Hanspeter