terminal emacs configuration take 2

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

I had earlier posted on changing fonts/faces for terminal Emacs (-nw
or nox).  Assuming I can detect that I'm running in the terminal in
.Emacs, what can I configure in terms of
faces/fonts/colours/borders/toolbars?  More so, assuming *no* X server
is running and TERM returns "xterm/xterm-256color"(like putty/MS terminal)
IF there is a dark theme that is easy on the eyes with large fonts
with decent colours for terminal emacs, that would help.

All configuration needs to go into .emacs. 

sivaram
--