I sort of caught this discussion in the middle so this has probably already been 
asked, but does the xterm you are using support color? I argued with mutt for a day 
and a half until i realized that my xterm was the problem not mutt.

Dave

On Fri, 19 May 2000, Hall Stevenson wrote:

> > On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 07:44:15AM -0400, Hall Stevenson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Yes, the first time I configured mutt, I didn't specify slang or
> > > ncurses, but according to "./configure --help", it will use slang by
> > > default. I'm 99% positive it found it -- would it compile if it
> didn't
> > > ??
> >
> >     Really?  I have both ncurses and slang installed, and the
> > configure script picked up ncurses to use.  If you had (n)curses,
> > configure could have found and used that.
> 
> Sorry, I'm not positive right now... I'm at work, my linux box is at
> home. I guess my main point is, it appears that neither option is
> getting me color. I've got a few other things to try though. I'll report
> back.
> 
> >     Should mutt -v spit out which library what used?
> 
> I think it does. I'll double-check that again.
> 
> Regards,
> Hall
> 

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