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No true ANSI on Mac yet - that I know of...
Authored by: bluehz on Nov 13, '02 06:10:02PM

I have tried various hints, etc setting up color in terminal, termcaps, etc and have always reverted back to non-color as the terminal slowed to a crawl when asked to display a long dir listing for example. Doesn\\\'t really make any sense why it should slow down - but it definitely does.

Also - not sure about this tip - but in most case I believe that true ANSI color and display is not possible on Mac as there does not seem to be any good terminal fonts available with the various symbols, chars used to create the patterns, etc. in an ANSI display. A good example - many of the unixers have created very intricate terminal prompts with fading color backgrounds behind the actual prompt. So far I have yet to see an ANSI font that will work on the Mac and provide the symbol chars necessary to create those effects.



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No true ANSI on Mac yet - that I know of...
Authored by: falkaholic on Nov 13, '02 07:08:26PM

In fink, you'll find:

ncurses 5.2-7 Full-screen ascii drawing library

Thats what is used in linux and so forth for colour shells. I havn't tried it myself though.



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