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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Color over vt100
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 16:55:43 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Howard Lamarr <Yadra@cris.com>

Howard Lamarr wrote:
> 
> How do you display color screens to dialup users?  I can display color
> with vidcontrol on the local console but not via vt100 or ansi
> connections.

Huh?  That has nothing to do with the host OS.  If the user has a color
capable terminal or terminal emulator (e.g. a color xterm) then all you
need to do is have an application which echos the appropriate escape
sequences.

> I see that Linux systems support color screens for remote connections,
> does FreeBSD?

Well, in as much as both operating systems can emit characters in the
ASCII character set, sure! :-)
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project