[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: console mode colors

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 09:29 -0500, Terry Henderson wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 09:10:31 -0500, Terry Henderson <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> > How does one change console mode colors, or turn off colors?
> > 
> Just need to temporarily change console colors till I replace monitor
> which no longer displays blue.  In console mode, blue is just black
> and so it's not visible, and so if I could trade blue for green or,
> well I don't know, just want to be able to see all some how, even if I
> have to do away with colors all together.  At any rate, just a
> temporary workaround.
> (Using lynx: all l inks other than selected ones are invisible)
> (ls shows files but not directories)
> 
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if your doing ls and seeing colors... try 
/bin/ls -lart 
which will not do an alias that might be adding 
--color to your ls command. 

you mignt also try setting your terminal to VT100 
if it's ANSI since ANSI is more 'corlorful' 



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Jack Snodgrass <jack at jacksnodgrass.com>