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Mar 19, 2018 at 15:11 vote accept MC Emperor
Mar 16, 2018 at 8:47 comment added Thomas Dickey Sure - it could be using some combination not apparent in the termcap - but if you want to know what escape sequences it's actually using, you could use script to capture that (and perhaps use cat -v to render the result readable).
Mar 16, 2018 at 8:28 comment added MC Emperor @ThomasDickey That's what it makes peculiar — the colored picture in my question is actually generated by the ACUCOBOL runtime.
Mar 16, 2018 at 7:35 comment added JdeBP Its documentation of colour gives the answer. It is not actually "you can't", and it's one of several reasons that correctly stating the output device in the question is important.
Mar 15, 2018 at 21:07 comment added Thomas Dickey It looks like you ran a script which sent codes 100-107. You can modify a termcap to do that, but can't make it choose from both 40-47 and 100-107.
Mar 15, 2018 at 9:36 comment added MC Emperor Thanks for the explanation, it (now) makes sense to me. Leaves me with one last question (see question edit): why can the brightness still be applied to black and white? That should be impossible, isn't it?
Mar 15, 2018 at 9:32 history edited Thomas Dickey CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 15, 2018 at 8:02 comment added Thomas Dickey Its documentation of color is no better.
Mar 15, 2018 at 5:23 comment added JdeBP The GT Users' Guide has a more complete description than the Runtime Manual.
Mar 14, 2018 at 22:03 history answered Thomas Dickey CC BY-SA 3.0