On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 08:06:29PM +0100, Holger Eitzenberger thus spoke:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 03:14:21PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
>
> > I'm using mutt on this system (x-1.net) via an ssh connection from a
> > Sun workstation. It works fine except for colour. I have mutt
> > running on the Sun locally with colour working OK and have copied the
> > commands across.
> >
> > I have slrn working on this ssh session and displaying colour OK
> > (using slrn -C), is there any way to get mutt to send colour
> > information too?
>
> Please correct me if i am wrong but i think its mostly your ssh-client
> (-- it has to understand ANSI colors --) which is responsible for
> the colors. On some minor popular OS i use TeraTerm to connect to
> my linux box. It is in the public domain and supports colors in the
> VT100 emulation.
Well ssh understands what termcaps/terminfo's it's given to deal with.
It's more a question of what are you running on the client side as far as a
console to run it on (linux works...I do it daily), and having the remote
end's terminal settings correct.
It really does work out of the box with a 1.2.26 ssh install (last
non-crappy-license version I know of).
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