Re: (type graphic)

[Andrew Innes]

On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:28:08 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> said:
>If the number of supported colors is the _only_ reason, we can simply 
>test how many colors are supported, and act accordingly, or define a 
>new type, say '256color, to check inside defface instead 'tty.  The 
>advantage of this is that it will DTRT even if some character terminal 
>supports lots of colors (I'm told that the w32 terminal can, in 
>principle, do that, even if the current code doesn't yet support that).

To the best of my knowledge, the console support on Windows has the same
fixed 16-colour set as DOS has.  I don't think apps can have any control
over the palette used in console windows.

AndrewI