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Re: do you have a 256 color test you could share?


From: Richard
Subject: Re: do you have a 256 color test you could share?
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 04:36:35 +0000 (UTC)

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Patrick <address@hidden> spake the secret code
<address@hidden> thusly:

>I have different terminals giving 88 for the COLORS value while 
>the 256 ANSI escape programs show 256.

As someone who collects serial terminals, I'm curious to know what you
have that only has 88 colors.  88 is an odd number; 64 and 256 would
have made sense, but 88 is throwing me for a loop.  (Some terminals
"cheat" and use dithering to give the appearance of a larger number of
colors.)
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