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Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 02:33:49 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Black letters on white background?
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Martin Mrazek wrote:

> I can find it neither in FAQ nor in documentation, so sorry for the
> simple question:
> 
> How can I switch the default Cygwin colours? I need black letters on
> white background...
> 
> I tried DIR_COLOR but it seems it relates only to color of letters...

Use rxvt.  You can specify all sorts of colors with command line
switches or X resources (even though you don't need a X server running,
it will still try to read you .Xdefaults file.)

Or, if you must use a Windows CMD.EXE shell, right click on the shortcut
that launches the shell and there is a page where you can change font,
colors, rows x cols, etc.

Brian

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