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RE: Any FAQ's on colour ls?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred W. Noltie Jr.)
Sun Nov 29 13:20:46 1998
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Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 12:20:48 -0600 (CST)
From: "Fred W. Noltie Jr." <criterion-consulting@usinternet.com>
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On 29-Nov-98 Bruce Richardson spluttered:
# Several people wrote:
# ># alias ls='ls -F --color=tty'
# or something similar. Surely this only affects ls. Is there a
# system-wide setting that has the same effect for man and others?
#
#
#
Perhaps setterm is what you're looking for: allows you to set the
foreground & background colors of your terminals to what you wish
(doesn't affect xterms though). Try man setterm and see. I've got cyan
text on a black background, which seems real easy on the eyes.
Fred
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