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Re: problem: X on color sparcstation

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From: Guy Cardwell
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 19:32
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In article <3800@brazos.Rice.edu> era@niwot.ucar.edu writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 217, message 23 of 23
>
>We've noticed this small but annoying problem on color 4c/60s here: after
>you've booted your station, entered X, and exited X, the regular console
>display turns to pukey-gray barely-visible characters.
>
>Has anyone else encountered this and found a solution?  I'm only asking
>because I'm too lazy to manipulate a mountain of manuals.
>

The clear_colormap program will reset your colors back to something more
reasonable.
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From: gcardwel@orion.oac.uci.edu (Guy Cardwell)
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Subject: Re: problem: X on color sparcstation
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Date: 20 Dec 89 19:32:04 GMT
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