6 Colorize aims at being a small, independent and handy command-line
7 text colorizing tool. It emits ANSI escape sequences in order to
8 color lines of text; also, sequences emitted by colorize or foreign
9 programs may be cleared.
11 The main code is written in C (c89 mostly), whereas the test script
12 consists of Perl code.
14 Colorize is known to build and test successfully on Linux and
15 Net/Open/MirBSD. Other platforms are untested, so be prepared for
16 it to eventually not work as expected there.
26 Issue `make' to build colorize.
28 Once completed, run the tests with `make check'.
30 Then you should most likely have a working binary. There are
31 currently no make targets to install it as such.
33 Finally, remove it through `make clean'.
35 For the sake of completeness, colorize can be also built with
36 debugging output by issuing `make FLAGS=-DDEBUG'. The intention
37 is to provide some memory allocation diagnostics (and might be
38 extended in future). Usually, a debugging build is not required.
42 See man page source file: colorize.1.
46 Let me know, if you have ideas, bug reports, patches, etc.
50 Steven Schubiger <stsc@refcnt.org>