mc misdetects 256 color support on rxvt

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

On Fri, 19 Feb 2016, David Niklas wrote:

> I want to use a 256 color theme in rxvt but every time I select it via -S
> I get, a red screen telling me that my terminal does not support 256
> colors. I know for a fact that rxvt does support 256 colors.

So, how do you know it for a fact? Does 256colors2.pl work right? What's 
your $TERM, do you have terminfo set up correctly?

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Sincerely yours,
Yury V. Zaytsev