> 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. and VT200 DOES 
> HAVE colors.
>  
> so what to do ?!?

Can't you just use ASCII escapes to generate colored output on console? 
I use such a technique for my shell prompt:

# set prompt = "ESC[1mESC[31;40m${user}@ESC[31;40m${mch:q}: {\!} ESC[0m"

Note that the "ESC"s are generated in vi by inserting a literal ^[ by 
preceding it with ^v

HTH,
Beaker