From 000d1e389710ecd3e914f9a168ebbf64155bd131 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Griffith Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:17:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Add some talk about color in curses. --- doc/frotz.6 | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/frotz.6 b/doc/frotz.6 index 46df087..f31f97c 100644 --- a/doc/frotz.6 +++ b/doc/frotz.6 @@ -554,6 +554,19 @@ Watch object movement. This option enables debugging messages from the interpreter which describe the movement of objects in the object tree. Default is "off". +.SH COLOR +Whether or not +.B Frotz +will display color depends upon the curses library and the terminal. In +general, an xterm or other X11-based terminal emulator will support +color. Sometimes the value of $TERM will need to be set to something +like "xterm-color" or "rxvt-256color". For a Linux console, $TERM is +almost always set to "linux". This will support color. For a NetBSD or +OpenBSD console on an x86 or amd64, the default value of $TERM is +"vt100". To get color supported there, you need to set $TERM to "pc3". +A FreeBSD console's $TERM is "xterm" and will support color. Color on +text consoles on machines other than x86 or amd64 is untested. + .SH UNICODE .B Frotz supports Unicode glyphs by way of UTF-8 if the terminal used supports -- 2.34.1