OT: Color, the SCO console vs FacetWin

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 08:49:54PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> If there's something wrong besides that colour glitch I've never tracked
> down, maybe I can find it.  Or Jay surely knows.  (Hey Jay, have you ever
> licked the colour issue I'm talking about?)

Naw; I just switched the clients off SCO. :-)

I believe what you're talking about is the result of an inadequacy in
the definition of the ANSI standard; you can reasonably do either
thing, and PuTTY does a different thing than the SCO console driver
chooses to do.

I don't see that there really *is* any solution; it's a disconnect
between what the termincal code does and what the app/termcap/curses
library expects.  If you're the app, you can probably force the right
behavior without breaking anything, but otherwise...

Cheers,
-- jra
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