On 9/10/07, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a box that runs OpenBSD that sshes into my Debian box. On > OpenBSD, the default colour term is vt220 so when I ssh to debian, TERM > is set to vt220. > > When I run mc, all is well; colour, line draw, whatever. > > When I run lynx or mutt, I get black on white with no colour. On Lynx > this means that my blue on gray ends up as white on black; with mutt I > don't get the blue top and bottom lines or the red thread lines. > > If I ssh in from an xterm, with TERM=xterm, everything is fine. > > Does anyone have any clues on this? >
I've often wondered about this myself. All I know is that if I run mutt inside screen, I get colors. Terry
