set-background-color on the console

[Alex Schroeder]

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In GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2001-10-23 on confusibombus
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_CH
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

On the Linux console, M-x set-background-color has no effect.  In my
case, the background color is currently green and I want to set it to
black.  (set-background-color "black") ought to do the trick, I
believe.  If set-background-color is not supposed to work on a tty,
then this should be mentionend in the doc string.

Alex.
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