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Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 07:55:30 -0800
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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zzapper wrote:

> Thanx very much for your very useful reply. However Man & Info don't
> seem to inherit the values of PS1, so I guess their colours must be
> set elsewhere (DOS window)

I would definitely try rxvt with the --bg and --fg parameters to set the
colors.  I use CMD.EXE as little as possible these days, it seems like
rxvt just plain works better for just about every aspect.

Brian

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