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> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:08:09 +0100
> From: David R <angel_ov_north@tiscali.co.uk>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 11:52:20 +0100
> >> From: David R <angel_ov_north@tiscali.co.uk>
> >>
> >>> Where do you see that you only have 16 colors?  Are you perhaps
> >>> invoking Emacs as "emacs -nw"?  What do you see if you type "M-x
> >>> colors-display RET"?
> >>   The M-x colors-display was not recognised.
> > 
> > Sorry, I meant "M-x list-colors-display RET".
> > 
> > 
> yes it does show all the colors normally

That clearly shows you that Emacs supports much more than 16 colors.
So something else is at work here.