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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Ron Clarke wrote:

> > What colour did you want then?  Blue?
> > --------------------------------
> > setterm -background blue ; clear
> > --------------------------------
> 
>     I tried that with "cyan":
> 
>    Impressive !   I also tried setterm -foreground blue ; clear
> and got a most comfortable screen. 
>    Then raising MC and back returned the screen to white on black.
> There must be a man page somewhere for setterm.

That's interesting to know.  For what it's worth, I think the place where 
you set font color (not background color, though, I think) is in 
~/.bashrc.

James