Subject: Re: colors on wscons
To: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@beverly.kleinbus.org>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 11/09/2000 07:24:54
On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 07:56:56PM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> On Jan 16,  8:26am, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> } 
> } I've played a bit more, and found out that back on the wscons, setting
> } TERM to 'ansi' does a lot of good there, too. IIRC the VT220 was capable
> } of doing color - is there a good reason we don't tell in our termcap
> } entry to do so?
> 
>      I don't recall if anybody has actually answered this, but a
> genuine VT220 is not capable of colour.  You need a minimum of a VT340
> for colour.

I guess there is some demand for a vt340 emulation, then.

Regards,
	-is