>>>>> "Ron" == Ron West <ron@pacificrimcorp.com> writes:
Ron> We are porting our applications over from SCO Unix to Linux. Our
Ron> user applications are not written to take advantage of the GUI,
Ron> but are all Borne or Korn shell scripts executing from the command
Ron> line. One command that executes from the .profile is the SCO
Ron> setcolor command which changes the forground and background colors
Ron> of the user's screen. I (a new Linux admin) have looked
Ron> everywhere for an equivalent command, but have found nothing, no
Ron> referrences to anything other than DIR_COLOR which isn't what we
Ron> want. Is there a way to do this? I simply want to color the
Ron> screen at the Borne shell blue with white characters.
Does `setterm -background "whatever" -store' do what you want?
man setterm gives details as usual.
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