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Hello,

On Nov 16, 2007, at 12:51, Magnus Henoch wrote:

> My involuntary X-ile has forced me to explore the console more  
> closely.
> (i.e., -current and X.org seem not to like eachother; still trying to
> debug it)  At login, TERM is set to vt100, and neither lynx nor emacs
> display colours; I get black text on white background.

VT100 doesn't do colour, IIRC vt220 would be the one that does.

> What is the correct TERM setting for the macppc console?  How can my
> programs be told that the console has a white background?

I use xterm-color which does colour and works well with odd console  
sizes.

have fun
Michael
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