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From: Gordon Burditt on 13 May 2010 14:35
>Does anyone here have a link to a comprehensive
>guide or tutorial for the settings available in
>Unix terminals?

I suggest you look at a package such as Ncurses. Also look at
"termcap" which is used to describe the abilities of terminals.

All the world is *NOT* a vt100 or emulation thereof.

>Things like color, font, etc.
>Googling with what i thought would be the
>expected keyowrds has not helped?

There is very little guaranteed about Unix terminals. One might
be an ASR33 teletype, with hardcopy, no lower case letters, no
moving the cursor up, no "clear screen", etc. Another might be a
very simple CRT, with direct cursor positioning, scrolling, clear
screen, and very little else.

I don't know of any "font" support, but some terminals have character
attributes, such as bold, underlined, reverse video, etc.

Some PC consoles emulating a terminal support something like 8
foreground colors and/or colours.

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