Problems with Redhat 8 in console window

[Myron Turner <turnermm shaw ca>]

I used the rpm to load the latest mc onto Redhat 8.  It works fine in a Gnome 
terminal  but not in the console, outside of the windows environment.  In the 
latter case, there are no borders and the background color does not complete 
cover all areas of the mc window--in particular the mini-status window along 
the bottom of the screen.  Also, the two directory windows are butted right up 
against each other--which I guess goes with the fact that there are no borders 
to separate them.  

Are there settings that I can change  to improve the appearance?

It works fine, by the way, from a telnet terminal--except for the fact that, as 
another user reported a while back, the background color doesn't cover over 
all erased areas--which I handled by changing the telnet client's background 
color to that of mc.  (I use putty)  The color in case anyone is interested is :
    0 0 187 (rgb)



Thanks,

Myron Turner