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  9. From: Christopher Mosley <cmosley@voicenet.com>
  10. Subject: Colors with vt220
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  12. Date: Wed, 03 Nov 1999 21:38:31 GMT
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  14.  
  15. I don't think vt100, vt220 are officially, explicitly color
  16. terminals but there is color support in mskermit. Some unix text programs
  17. that use color, not all but a few, do not work very well with vt220 emulation
  18. (set term type vt220) but _do_ work with "set term type ansibbs" in mskermit.
  19. I believe these same programs work well in various xterms in xwindows on
  20. linux, I would have to check to be absolutely sure. I used scripts to
  21. work around this in mskermit, using apc to change term type then running
  22. program, then using apc to return to a vt terminal. Wondering generally
  23. why this is?
  24.                                                        Thanks
  25.                                                   Christopher Mosley
  26.