Jim demonstrates color manipulation with curses by adding colors to his terminal adventure game. Drawing on the screen is all very well and good, but if it's all white-on-black text, your program ...

Why does ncurses support only eight colors? If you've looked into the color palette available in curses, you may wonder why curses supports only eight colors. The curses.h include file defines these ...

I'm using secureCRT 3.1.2 (windows). it supports "linux" terminal-type and ANSI color. I have both of these enabled, and ssh into my debian 2.2 box. I can normally see color fine, i.e., when I use ...