On Thu, 8 May 1997, Amitai Schlair wrote:
> I've been flipping through the man pages, and sometimes if I quit
> (typing 'q' at the end of a page in less) the prompt gives me white text
> on a black background. 'man fsck' does this consistently. The rest of
> the screen is still white -- only the prompt (and the next prompt, ad
> shutdown) inverts.
ok, try setting your terminal to vt100. I bet you're using vt220.
> 
> Underlining seems a bit wrong too, as there are lots of instances where
> underlines extend from their proper positions in the body of the
> indented man page text to the left edge of the screen. Functional but
> ugly... have either of these things happened to other folks?
Same as above.
> 
> While I'm on the subject, how can I set things so that I *always* have
> white text on a black background? Barring the aforementioned inversion
> of the prompt, of course. ;)
Use dt, that will fix all these problems and it is pretty good. I 
personaly perfer X-Windows.
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> Amitai Schlair
> amitai.schlair@usa.net
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