chris@mcc.UUCP (Chris Robertson) (12/31/89)
I posted this question a couple of weeks ago, but got no response. Please
someone help me! My local support people are, to put it bluntly, useless.
I have just got a VGA console for my Bell Technologies' SysV/386 3.2 Rel 2.1
Unix (it's on a Brand X 386). The monitor seems to be working fine -- I
can get it to do pretty colours, but there are two problems:
1. No matter what I do, I cannot put the *whole screen* into some
background colour from the shell. I end up with coloured
text at the left of the screen, black on the right-hand side.
Looks really repulsive.
2. I can't make the set of background colours which has to have
blink enabled first work. All I get is blinking characters
and the other (non-blink) colour. Annoying.
I have read the manuals (I *think* I've read all the relevant parts -- it's
a bit hard to tell without an overall index), and have mucked around with
terminfo entries, but to no avail. I believe I saw the answer to my
question go by about two months ago, but that news is long expired here.
Surely there must be someone else out there with a similar system who has
solved this? (Bell Technologies, or whatever you're called now, are you
on the net?) All I want is to set windows of solid colour without having
to fill them with blanks first, and to have black-on-white for my working
shell environment. I'm starting to get very frustrated about this. Even
a (polite) RTFM with the proper sections pointed to would be welcomed.
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