Article 16017 of news.software.readers: Path: mri.com!news.aimnet.com!ns1.aplatform.com!ns2.mainstreet.net!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!genmagic!sgigate.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!davis From: davis@space.mit.edu (John E. Davis) Newsgroups: news.software.readers Subject: Re: color slrn in xterm Date: 21 Apr 1996 17:10:14 GMT Organization: Center for Space Research Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: davis@space.mit.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: wiwaxia.mit.edu X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8 UNIX) On 21 Apr 1996 04:44:20 GMT, Joe Rumsey wrote: : I use Ansi-xterm and have seen no bugs. It is not the same thing as : color-xterm, and works quite well. It still has xterm's other : drawback though, which is the rather bloated memory footprint. slrn will work with nearly all color terminals. However, on some terminals, one is required to configure the terminal such that the normal terminal background color is the SAME background color as specified by the .slrnrc `color normal' line. The smarter terminals, e.g., rxvt, do not require these colors to be the same. As a result, I can test any slrn color scheme without configuring the terminal's background color. -- John E. Davis Center for Space Research/AXAF Science Center 617-258-8119 MIT 37-662c, Cambridge, MA 02139 http://space.mit.edu/~davis