Nevermind on console colours..FINALLY found it

[Fairlight]

Solution for linux...the one thing I'd forgotten about:

alias p '/appl/fp/p ; setterm -foreground yellow -background blue; clear'

*curses at it even being necessary*

And (of course!) I found it about 20 seconds after I posted my first
message.  And sadly, I'd delayed that five or six times previously trying
new things and finally hit my breaking point.  Wrote to see if there was a
solution someone had and it was the next thing I found.

Been so long since I've -needed- it, I forgot all about setterm for colour.

Sorry.  That -really- made me grumpy.

mark->
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