Subject: Re: Q: Pine and HyperTerminal PE

From: Bill Stewart <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 12:05:01 -0700

On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Thomas Jess Bowers wrote:

>I use HyperTerminal to connect to Pine (Unix) at my school. I
>just installed the upgrade to HyperTerm and everything is fine
>until I bring up Pine. When I first used Pine (3.91) several
>months ago I had black letters on a white screen. After using
>pine two or three times it switched to White letters on Black
>(but only in Pine). The first time I dialed up under the new
>HyperTerm everything was normal until I got into Pine. Now I have
>gray on black. About a month ago my school switched to Pine 3.95
>but this didn't effect anything. I always and still have black on
>white until pine comes up -- then everything changes. I couldn't
>find an explanation in the help screens and tried my help desk at
>school. They had no explanation. Can anyone shed some light? I
>realize this could be due to HyperTerm but the prior changes
>leave me confused.

I have a guess at what's causing the colors problem. It may be
that the UNIX system you're dialing into uses a different
terminal emulation. Try changing your HyperTerminal profile that
calls to your school to use a different terminal emulation.

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Bill Stewart
[email-masked]
http://www.unm.edu/~wstewart/
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From: Thomas Jess Bowers <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 21:06:36 -0500

Thanks Bill! The terminal emulation mode was the answer to my second post
(screen was black on white).  I tried getting characters to return to
white on a black background and got black on white.  Black on white
appears under VT100.  Previously I had white on black background under
ANSI.  This changed to gray on black under ANSI using the new
HyperTerminal.  Since I changed back to ANSI it is still gray on black.  I
prefer the black background to reduce eye strain but find gray characters
don't produce enough contrast.  I'll just live with it until something
else happens.  Thanks Again,

T. Jess Bowers
GSU College of Law
[email-masked]

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From: Thomas Jess Bowers <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 19:02:03 -0500

I just dialed in for a third time and now I've got black letters on white.
Haven't seen this in months.  What give's?  TIA,

T. Jess Bowers
GSU College of Law
[email-masked]