How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?

[Karl M]

B20 was great back then wasn't it!

...Karl


>From: "Frank Slootweg" <franks_cygwin@yahoo.com>
>To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Subject: How to set the colors of terminfo's standout mode?
>Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 10:24:11 +0200
>
>   How can I set the colors of terminfo's standout (smso, so) mode?
>
>   I have a terminfo application (tin, the newsreader) which, as far as
>I can tell, uses standout mode to highlight things.
>
>   I first used this on the old Cygwin B20 release and that gave white
>text on a black background (normal text is black on white), i.e.
>'inverse-video' and a good contrast, i.e. easy to read.
>
>   I now rebuilt (configure,/make, compile, link, etc.) the application
>on Cygwin 1.5.9. That new version displays standout mode as light-grey
>text on a dark-grey background, i.e. little contrast and very hard to
>read.
>
>   Basically I want the old behaviour (white-on-black) on Cygwin 1.5.9,
>but have no idea how/where that can be set.
>
>   Some more information: The application is started from a "Command
>Prompt" 'DOS' window, i.e. not from a (bash) shell. However when I do a
>"tput smso" in that window and then "echo text", I see the same
>behaviour (light-grey on dark-grey), so I think it is a terminfo/
>terminal issue, not a shell issue. The TERM variable is set to "cygwin".
>
>   Thanks in advance for any and all responses.
>
>
>
>
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