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2007-10-10 Thread ara.t.howard
On Oct 10, 2007, at 5:19 AM, Christian Ebert wrote: AFAIR ncurses shipped with MacOS X is an old version that doesn't have a screen-256color entry. What gives: $ infocmp screen-256color If you get an error, the cleanest solution is to install a recent ncurses version (fink's is not new enou

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2007-10-09 Thread ara.t.howard
On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:22 AM, cga2000 wrote: IIRC .. you first need to have a version of screen that supports 256 colors _and_ specify --enable-colors256 when you ./configure it prior to compile. right. the Portfile on OSX does indeed specify this option to configure Another thing is that

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2007-10-09 Thread ara.t.howard
hi all, first post to the list- i've scanned the archives and seen that others have had issues getting 256 colors under screen as well - this is the issue i'm having. i'm running the 'xterm-colortest' found here: http://frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/ http://frexx.de/xterm-256-notes/data/xte