More robust color terminal

Sun Jun 26 05:12:00 GMT 2005

Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On 2005年6月24日, Reid Thompson wrote:
>>>>>Gary R. Van Sickle wrote:
>>>>>>>>Both rxvt and the cmd.exe window only support 16 colors.
>>>>>>>>>>>Welcome to 1983. I at least hope they include those horrid CGA
>>>colors.
>>>>>>--
>>>Gary R. Van Sickle
>>>>>>>>recompiling rxvt for 256 colors is not hard.
>>>>$ ./rxvt -help |head
>>Rxvt v2.7.10 - released: 26 MARCH 2003
>>Options:
>>XPM,transparent,utmp,menubar,multichar_languages,scrollbars=rxvt+NeXT+xterm,frills,linespace,256colour,.Xdefaults
>>>>>>Ah, I knew I saw something about rxvt supporting 256 colors somewhere.
>The man page is misleading, apparently.
>>Any idea why the current release doesn't use 256 colors?
>	Igor
>P.S. Don't you mean "rxvt -help 2>&1 | head"? Rxvt's help goes to stderr.
>>LOL -- yeah -- i just selected the top portion to paste when it bypassed 
head.
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