Re: Re: scfg in black and white
  By: Ragnarok to Digital Man on Mon Aug 17 2020 05:15 pm

 > El 17/8/20 a las 15:59, Digital Man escribi¢:
 > >    Re: scfg in black and white
 > >    By: DaiTengu to Ragnarok on Sun Aug 16 2020 12:45 am
 >
 > >   >   Re: scfg in black and white
 > >   >   By: Ragnarok to DOVE-Net.Synchronet_Discussion on Sat Aug 15 2020
 > > 11:32 pmn
 > >   >
 > >   >  Ra> I run scfg on linux via ssh (I always ran it like this) .. and it
 > > now
 > >   >  Ra> start in black and white instead of the stadnar blue and yellow
 > >   >
 > >   >
 > >   >  I ran into this recently too, I thought it was becauseI had been
 > > accessing
 > >   > my server from my laptop, which might have different TERM settings.
 > >   >
 > >   > So I spent  a little  time changing the $TERM variable with no luck.
 > > "xterm"
 > >   > made the boxes completely solid grey with no visible text.
 > > xterm-256color,
 > >   > ansi-bbs, vt100, and other terminal types gave me black & white.
 >
 > > I played around with this and the TERM env variable definitely has an
 > > effect. Using putty as the terminal, setting TERM to "ansi" or "xterm"
 > > brought the uifc apps (e.g. scfg) up at normal color. e.g.
 > > $ TERM=xterm /sbbs/exec/scfg -ic
 > Yeah!, setting term to xterm is the only that just work.thanks!
 >
 > Will it be possible to add another terminal like xterm-256color, linux,
 > etc ?

That's a question for the ncurses developers. None of the Synchronet/UIFC code
directly cares what your TERM setting is.

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