Re: termcap or terminfo

[Stanley Yao <yao@CS.Arizona.EDU>]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
> Eli Zaretskii
> <eliz@elta.co.il>], who wrote in article <mailman.715.1059569231.8231.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>:
> > > Now I stick to the 8 color. But I am trying to change them a bit
> > > brighter, because they are now very dark and difficult to be seen on the
> > > screen (expecially the blue color).
> > > I guess I need to configure the terminfo to change the palette, right?
> >
> > If this is on xterm or some other terminal emulator, a much easier way
> > is to configure the emulator to use different colors for the 8 defined
> > color names.
>
> FYI: I use this (but with light background):
>
> *VT100*colorMode: on
> *VT100*boldColors: on
> *VT100*dynamicColors: on

Thank you both Mr./Mis. Zaretskii and Mr./Mis. Zakharevich!
I am not using an xterm on the X server. I just set the TERM to be
xterm-color or vt100 and use the text console in a SSH Secure Shell 3.0.0
on a windows XP machine and connect to a
Solaris machine in the department. I searched on SSH website for how to
change palette on the SSH client, but did not find anything. SSH Secure
Shell is different from the Xterm on Linux which support the change of
palette.
I checked ASNI color and they send strings like \e[{attr1};...;{attrn}m
to the terminal to specify the colors. Standard attributes are
0	Reset all attributes
1	Bright
2	Dim
4	Underscore
5	Blink
7	Reverse
8	Hidden

	Foreground Colors
30	Black
31	Red
32	Green
33	Yellow
34	Blue
35	Magenta
36	Cyan
37	White

	Background Colors
40	Black
41	Red
42	Green
43	Yellow
44	Blue
45	Magenta
46	Cyan
47	White
Seems the SSH Client can only get the code (or name of the colors)
representing colors but not the RGB values. Does this mean we can't change
the palette in the shell enviroment and we can only change the palette on
the terminal emulator?
Thanks!
Stan