From: A. V. Le Blanc (zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk)
Date: 07/14/92


From: zlsiial@uts.mcc.ac.uk (A. V. Le Blanc)
Subject: Re: [comp.os.linux]: SETTERM
Date: 14 Jul 1992 13:19:53 GMT

In article <sscVNB10w165w@ssg.com> unixsys@ssg.com (Rick Emerson) writes:
:news-daemon@optical.bms.com writes:
:> From: wilker@hopf.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
:>
:> I'm using MCC -interium 0.96c. After using setterm to set the foreground and
:> when I exit "vi", it reverts to the default settings of white text on
:> black bacground
:
:Yeah, I noticed that, too, even when exiting from joe. Add one more voice
:to the chorus of "why come it do that?" <g>

Setterm requires the '-store' option to make changes permanent under
these circumstances.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk