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From: lukem@supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au (Luke Mewburn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Term colours in i386/NetBSD
Date: 4 Oct 95 07:27:30 GMT
Organization: CPR Project, ITG, Telstra
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u9015310@muss.cis.McMaster.CA (R. Giannini) writes:

> I was wonderinf if there is a way to set the colours of your terminal 
> screen in NetBSD running on a 486?  The text is currently white, which is 
> fine.  But the colour used for bold has changed from Yellow (which was 
> good) to an unreadable dark blue.

Sounds like the 'pc3' emulation has been confused by some ansi code
(often happens when you cat a binary file)

Simple solution, type:
	reset
with your term type set to 'pc3'.
--
Luke Mewburn <luke.mewburn@itg.telstra.com.au>
"..(and) We've heard how teen prostitution, pregnancy, drug use, cults,
 runaways, suicide and poor hygiene are sweeping this nation. We thought you
 might like to share with the committee any particular *causes* you might see