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Re: Screen color question


At 03:39 PM 3/6/2002, Barry Goldstein wrote:
>I installed cygwin and have been using it pretty much as it came "out of
>the box" (on an NT4 box).
>
>As installed (with the bash shell), it displays light green on black
>background and I'm going blind. I searched the faq, etc., and found all
>sorts of stuff about setting colors in vim or emacs, but nothing about
>setting the colors in the vanilla shell.


You set colors for the console window the same way as you would for a 
DOS prompt (since the shell is just starting in a DOS prompt box).  Change 
the colors in the properties menu.  If you want to set colors instead within 
the shell instead, check out the bash documentation (man page, etc) for that 
information.

  

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