On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Stephen Borrill wrote:

> I've installed ncurses-5.0 and dialog, but the default vt220 terminal
> type defined in /etc/ttys does not support colour. Looking through
> terminfo.src, I can't see any other obvious choices. I tried pc3, but it
> doesn't have top-bit characters to display lines, etc.

Actually, it's supposed to support color, but there's evidently some
kind of ncurses bug that causes the first few entries in the
termcap->terminfo entry to "roll off"--especially the the co#80 entry.
 
> So what's a good colour terminal type that can be used with wscons that
> will work neatly with dialog?

Try rxvt, color_xterm, and xterm-16color. These all work with ncurses
for xterms.