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From: "Robert Mark Bram" <relaxedrob@optushome.com.au>
To: "Larry Hall \(RFK Partners, Inc\)" <lhall@rfk.com>,
   "Cygwin" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: Use of PROMPTING
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 01:23:56 +1000
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Here is what I am talking about:

http://neptune.netcomp.monash.edu.au/cpe1004/temp/cygwinView.png

Using properties I changed the screen background to white and the text to
black. It does it but everything else I type comes out with the old colors!
Have a look!

Rob
:)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) [mailto:lhall@rfk.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 12 June 2002 12:32 AM
> To: Robert Mark Bram; Cygwin
> Subject: Re: Use of PROMPTING
>
>
> At 08:26 AM 6/11/2002, Robert Mark Bram wrote:
> >Howdy all!
> >
> >I am running Cygwin on W2K and I would like to know how to
> change my colors.
> >I changed them in the properties section of the consols but it turns out
> >this is only Windows settings and Cygwin's Bash goes on and uses its own
> >colors irrespective.
>
>
> Really?  How so?  It's always worked for me.  Perhaps you're not
> saving the
> changes to the current short-cut?
>
>
> >I had a look at man bash and found the section on PROMPTING. I didn't see
> >any information on changing colors but I saw some old archive
> messages that
> >mention this is the way to change them.
> >
> >Can anyone tell me if this is the way to change colors - and if so how?
>
>
> Yes, this is a terminal-centric way of doing it.  You need to use escape
> sequences and numeric codes to tell bash what to do.  This covers colors,
> positioning, and a variety of other settings.  You may find "man terminfo"
> helpful in interpreting all this.  HOWTOs for this at GNU sites may prove
> more helpful in this regard.
>
>
>
> Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
> 838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
> Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX
>


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