From: Brent Rowland <tarod@...>
Date: 2001-02-06T12:29:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10397] Re: Telnet program in ruby?

> Thank you to those who pointed me to PuTTY.  This seems to have the
capabilities
> I need.  However, I have hit another snag.  The Sun's idea of xterm only
> supports bold and underline and so forth, not colour.  The options that
> say "this supports colour" like Co pa and so on, don't seem to appear in
> the terminfo entry for dtterm, which I know does support colour.  So,
> can anyone:
>    tell me how I can find which terminfo entries support colour reliably
> or
>    supply me with a terminfo enty for PuTTY itself, so that the suns
>    will talk sense to it?

The "terminfo for PuTTY" is xterm.  If the Sun xterm terminfo is
unsatisfactory but the terminfo files are compatible, I would copy Linux's
xterm to xterm2 or something and change the terminal string in PuTTY to
xterm2.

Might work.

Brent