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I've read many things off google and I can't get any of it to work. I've
looked everywhere in knoppix's config files and boot scripts and I can't
see anything different...

I just can't make it work. I have to be missing something somewhere.

nathan

On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 15:13, JD Austin wrote:
> > I am playing with the color schemes that knoppix uses when outputing
> > message while booting.
> >
> > CRE=3D"^M^[[K"
> > NORMAL=3D"^[[0;39m"	#Normal Color
> > RED=3D"^[[1;31m"		#Failure
> > GREEN=3D"^[[1;32m"	#Success
> > YELLOW=3D"^[[1,33m"	#Unused
> > BLUE=3D"^[[1;34m"		#System Messages
> > MAGENTA=3D"^[[1;35m"	#Description
> > CYAN=3D"^[[1;36m"		#Unused
> > WHITE=3D"^[[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.
>=20
> 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)?
>=20
> JD
--=20
Nathan England

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