On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:10:51 +0100, Florian Stöhr
<florian.stoehr@login-solutions.de> wrote:
> hi,
> 
> a CURSES(3) testprogram i wrote told me that the terminal cannot change
> colors and doesn't have colors.
> 
> i need to write a small programm that gives colored output.
> 
> i thought that the NetBSD-terminal is VT220-compatible. 

Florian, 

Are you talking about /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm?  It definitely has colors. 
Whenever I log into a linux box, "ls" tells me so.  

So it's not that. :)

--jkl