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From: "J. David Boyd" <dave AT tsc-corp DOT com>
To: "Cygwin" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:54:04 -0500
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I mean that I am running light grey characters on a black background (The
ms-dos prompt default in win98), and it is too hard on the eyes, with not
enough contrast.  I want to use a white background with black letters.

I'll look in the man page for bash again, I must have missed it before.

Thanks for the info!

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Reid Thompson" <jreidthompson AT yahoo DOT com>
To: "J. David Boyd" <dave AT tsc-corp DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: PS1 and color of cygwin screen


> A man on bash will give information re the PS prompts
> -- when you say you wish to change the color of your
> env,, how do you mean?
>
> reid
> --- "J. David Boyd" <dave AT tsc-corp DOT com> wrote:
> > How about a clue as to what I need to read to
> > decipher what the different items in PS1 do?
> >
> > I would like to change the color of my cygwin
> > environment, and I'm presuming that this is where I
> > would do it...
> >
> > Dave
> > > BEGIN:VCARD
> > VERSION:2.1
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> > FN:J. David Boyd
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