Changing Text Color Using VT100

UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users
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Hi,

I want to change the color of the text. Currently, I am using the following VT100 command, which changes the color of the foreground:

<ESC>[{attr1};...;{attrn}m

The problem is, when I change the color of the foreground, it changes the color of the text as expected, but it also highlights the text gray. Is it possible to change the color of the text wthout the gray highlighting?

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VT100 is not a command.
I'm not sure what you are doing exactly, but you can change both the forefround and background color within xterm or dtterm. If, say, you want yellow letters on a blue background in a dtterm, you'd do

dtterm -bg navy -fg yellow
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Have you tried 1 to 8 ?
It might be one of them

The following lists standard attributes:

0	Reset all attributes
1	Bright
2	Dim
4	Underscore	
5	Blink
7	Reverse
8	Hidden

	Foreground Colours
30	Black
31	Red
32	Green
33	Yellow
34	Blue
35	Magenta
36	Cyan
37	White

	Background Colours
40	Black
41	Red
42	Green
43	Yellow
44	Blue
45	Magenta
46	Cyan
47	White
4

I'm using Solaris 8.0.. Here I'm not able to locate this command. How to conduct this same operation in this Solaris box

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Should be in /usr/dt/bin/dtterm