Re: console [miss-]feature

Mike (mike@oakley.keble.ox.ac.uk)
Sat, 5 Sep 1998 15:49:11 +0100 (GMT)


On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Mike wrote:

> > Cure is (of course) simple: log in and type echo -e '\33[32m', for
> > example. But I doubt you'll figure this out when you see black screen.
>
> This doesn't seem to work in 2.1.103. I haven't yet managed to get my
> console back...
>
Further investigation shows that \33[3xm changes the color of the cursor
but not the text, \33[4xm changes the background color, but typing just
overwrites it with black on black.

Could the problem be anything to do with me haveing a colored prompt
string?

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Mike <rickettm@ox.compsoc.net>

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