On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:58:10PM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> Try tset'ing to 'color_xterm' or 'xterm_16color'. 
> (See games/frotz/pkg/MESSAGE.) Must be an ncurses 
> thing -- slang does find with 'xterm'.

You may also try setting the COLORTERM environment variable to 1, or some
other non-null value.  Some slang apps look for this, as well.

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