On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:08:25 +1200
Andy George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Further to the Ansi colours/size discussion, the solution you present below,
> will change the console, in a similar vein to Slackware, yes?  I'm looking
> at the console output of my IPTables Firewall, and honestly, if I can pretty
> that up some, it'd be almost readable.  Add some colours to differentiate
> information, reduce the font size, to make each line, one line, instead of
> multiples, ad infinitum...

take a look at colortail which nicely tails log files with colour output.
I think it will pretty up other text output as well.



> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Sawtell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 2004 10:04 a.m.
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Screens, colours, and text sizes.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:22, Andy George wrote:
> > I can only assume that Linux can do a similar if not flasher trick. �How,
> > or what MAN page would best show me how?
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html
> This describes in excruciating detail how to set up the hardware character
> generator in the video card. There is also the possibility of setting a
> screen font by software.
> man setfont
> describes this.
> 
> hth.
> 
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