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- From: bill@bain3.bain.oz.au (Bill Richardson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: hpterm only supports eight colors?!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.012923.3784@bain3.bain.oz.au>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 01:29:23 GMT
- References: <2A6D7E9D.52B9@tct.com>
- Organization: Bain & Company, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
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- chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
- > Good news: hpterm supports colors (with the strangest set of escape
- > codes this side of EBCDIC).
- >
- > Bad news: you can only have eight distinct color combinations
- > displayed at a time?!
- >
-
- Technically you can have 64 combinations (8 foreground * 8 background)
-
- > Is there no way around this limitation? Is there no replacement for
- > hpterm -- perhaps someone's hacked xterm -- that can display more than
- > eight color combinations at once? Perspiring minds want to know!
- > --
-
- Reflection (Walker, Richer & Quinn) enables a a greater range of colours
- (from a pallette of 16) plus more options (blinking etc). Its abilites include
- file transfers to and from the host, a command language (macros) and is
- available in a windows version. Obviously is more expensive. Around $aus800
- where I shop. It is a good product.
-
- > Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com>
- > "Do Rush place weird subliminal backmasked messages in their songs to
- > compel unwilling geeks to commit evil .sig atrocities?" -- Dean Engelhardt
-
-
- Regards
-
-
-
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