That didnt work, but
setterm -store -foreground blue -background white -clear 
that did, :) Thanks Thomas.

On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Thomas Köhler wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 14, 1998 at 03:33:10PM -0500, jago@ultravision.net wrote:
> > 
> > Slackeare 3.5 Linux Kernel 2.0.34
> > i dont know what version zsh is, what ever comes with slack 3.5
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, Thomas Köhler wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, Jul 13, 1998 at 07:39:56PM -0500, jago@ultravision.net wrote:
> > > 
> > > > setterm -foreground blue -background -white -clear or any other use of
> > > > setterm will not work under zsh.  Can someone help me out??
> > > 
> > > It works for me - what's your environment?
> > > 
> > > I have zsh-3.1.4 / Linux 2.0.3x
> 
> uhm, one question: did you also do a setterm -store?
> 
> Try this:
> setterm -foreground blue -background -white -clear -store
> 
> Does it work?
> 
> CU,
> Thomas
> 
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