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Old 09-02-2001
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Originally posted by PxT
Lets narrow things down: does color work at the command line? (not sure if FreeBSD supports color ls?) Try the following:

echo ^[[34mhello^[[37m

(where the sequence ^[ is produced by hitting ctrl-v then escape)

You should get the word hello printed in blue if your terminal supports color.
thanks for your help... and I applogize for my late response...
okay, I did what you told me to do... and yes the word "hello" did appear in blue... and my prompt changed to a very light grey.

mind you ... I did this from my freebsd console in KDE... I dunno if that makes a difference.