console driving me NUTS

[Fairlight]

Okay, here's the problem...  Whether it's SCO or linux, I'm having severe
issues whenever quitting out of runmenu, as it refuses to reset the
terminal colours to what they were.  It insists on leaving it with white on
black.

Under SCO, not so big an issue...I wrap it in an alias that calls setcolor
afterwards.

Under linux, I'd swear I used to know how to do this...at least on virtual
consoles.  I've tried tput with setb and setf, and that does nothing.  I've
tried tput reset, and it will reset the background with a screen
redraw--BUT, not the foreground colour, and the background reverts to black
as you type, making it ugly as sin.

Worse still, I'm using Anzio for this one particular purpose, and if I tell
it to reset the terminal, it doesn't reset the drawing to use the colours I
defined, it actually sets the colours to things that were -not-
saved...looks like it reverts to defaults for the terminal type.

How the BLOODY hell do I get linux to reset both foreground and background
colours after filePro refuses to clean up its mess.  The only surefire way
I've found is to use something else that has screen control, like vim.
Then it resets just fine.  That's not a solution.

I can't lay this at Anzio's feet, as fP does this under any emulator on any
system if you use colour.  I mean, I can have mutt up in full colour that
doesn't match the actual colours I set, and if I suspend it, my terminal is
as it should be...with the colours I had defined.  Only fP does this to me.  

I don't really care whose fault it is, I just want a solution under
linux--from remote, not on a VC.  Already have one for SCO.  I've wasted
an hour of time trying to get this %()&! thing fixed, and I'm -quite- put
out with fP at the moment.  Instead of getting something done, I'm fighting
with something that's been broken since at least 1993 and never fixed.  (I
had this problem with 4.1 on SCO 3.2.4.2 and had to institute the setcolor
fix then, too.)

Surely someone's tackled this and solved it before...do tell, please.  Save
what little of my sanity is left.

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