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Comment Re:Decent prompt (Score 2, Informative) 159

by tholo on Thursday April 28, 2005 @02:42PM (#12375636) Attached to: What UNIX Shell Config Settings Work for Newbies?

So, what do you do when you need to log in from somewhere / with some software that does not deal with ANSI color escape sequences?

I mean, at least GNU ls(1) will use terminfo to see if/what is possible to do...

What is it with people wanting their prompts (or les output!) colorized, anyways...?

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Thorsten Lockert was responsible for building up the site infrastructure and network at eBay Inc. He also had a principal role on the company's architecture R&D team. He also co-founded the leading online community in Norway. In his spare time he works on maintaining and extending OpenBSD. Currently he is doing a VoIP startup in Europe called Voop AS.

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