Colors in HP-UX

[Radhakrishnan Venkatara]

IS there any way to get colors on HP-UX (not thru X-windows) on telnet terminals Like Linux.I heard it is possible through some escape sequences

thanks in advance

radhakrishnan

[Santosh Nair_1]

First your terminal program should be able to support color (most of the newer ones do). Next get the GNU ls command...this has a -color option which shows ls listing in colors depending on the type of file/directory.

Hope this helps.

-Santosh

[John Bolene]

Linux telnet is coded to do that.

There might be a version on the hpux shares.

Try looking in
http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/

[A. Clay Stephenson]

The other side of this problem is that you must also have a terminfo and TERM type that
understands colors.

[someone_4]

Regular Refection for HP 6.0 has a color option where you can change the color of the font and the back ground.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

1. You need to have your terminal to support colors.
2. You can use escape sequences to set the type. Like to set it bold, you can do like this

BOLD=`echo ^[[1m`
NOBOLD=`echo ^[[m`

echo "This is $BOLD bold $NOBOLD"

the word bold will be printed in "bold".


-Sri