> I am playing with the color schemes that knoppix uses when outputing
> message while booting.
>
> CRE="^M^[[K"
> NORMAL="^[[0;39m"	#Normal Color
> RED="^[[1;31m"		#Failure
> GREEN="^[[1;32m"	#Success
> YELLOW="^[[1,33m"	#Unused
> BLUE="^[[1;34m"		#System Messages
> MAGENTA="^[[1;35m"	#Description
> CYAN="^[[1;36m"		#Unused
> WHITE="^[[1;37m"	#Unused
>
> But I'm failing somewhere.
> I tried
> echo "${BLUE}Hello there.${NORMAL}"
>
> But, it doesn't work.
> it comes back
> echo "^[[1;31mHello there.^[[0;39m
>
> How do I make this work? Obviously I've never used ansi colors before.

The first ^[ is the escape character.  Im not sure how you'd put a chr(27) in
that file without some sort of editor (nedit lets you do that); does the alt-#
thing still work (forgot how that worked)?

JD

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