I routinely use a program called "ponysay" to test my emulator's custom color pair logic. When I run "ponysay" directly on the linux console, the program displays custom colors perfectly. However, ncurses, doesn't seem to realize those capabilities. I know that ncurses is taking hints from the TERM variable and the "linux" terminfo entry only supports 8 colors and 64 pairs. I tried changing the TERM variable to xterm-256color but that had adverse effects. Is there a way to coax ncurses into treating the Linux console as supporting more than 8 colors and 64 pairs?
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Bryan
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