Different colors per user

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: <joe at magnatechonline.com>
Cc: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: Different colors per user


> Quoting Joe Chasan (Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:14:24 -0500):
> 
>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 05:32:24PM -0500, Brian K. White wrote:
> [...]
>>> Just TEXTNORMAL=0x... export TEXTNORMAL in the environment by any   
>>> scheme you want before calling the top level menu. ie: ~/.profile ,
> [...]
>> no such luck, that was the first thing i tried (though checked runmenu and
>> clerk, not dscreen) - colors in enviroment got overriden by those in
>> ../fp/lib/config.
> 
> Environment variables override config file settings.  Double-check your
> settings.

You know, it's weird, in reaction to this, which I _know_ works because we do it all the time as I said, I tried it again manualy, using p and runmenu instead of dscreen just to be sure, and I'll be dipped if it didn't work for me either the first few times.

I think it was the semicolon. I didn't put one in my example, and I have some scripts that do work that don't have a semicolon in that spot, but I think they must all happen to be bash, vs sco's stock plain sh or even ksh.

But after nailing it down without any possibility of guessing, unsetting everything so I don't have any possible duplicate variables with different cases so I don't have both a MENUNORMAL and a MenuNormal, and verifying with:
# sh    # become a child to prove we exported not just set

# set |egrep -i "(normal|inverse)"

MenuNormal=0x40

# runmenu

I definitly does work.

I change that number and get the appropriate color every time.

Same for other variables. Haven't tried nailing down what case conflicts do, other things to do...

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