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Re: new user: how to get white background


Have a look in archive to

PS1 and Window Title: in particular the stuff from

Thomas.Wolff@icn.siemens.de


"Fulford, Glenn" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have just installed cygwin. The default for the bash shell is to have
> white text on a black background.
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to reverse this: black on white background?
> (I'm not an experienced Unix user, I mainly installed cygwin to have the
> free C++ and fortran compilers on Windows
> However, I did a search on the archive, which suggests it has something to
> do with the termcap file, but I didn't understand what I had top change,
> assuming that is correct.)
> 
> Thanks,  Glenn.
> 
> Dr Glenn Fulford,  Email:  fulfordg@agresearch.cri.nz
> AgResearch, Wallaceville Animal Research Centre.
> PO Box 40063, Upper Hutt, NZ
> WEB:            http://www.ma.adfa.edu.au      Phone: +64 4 922 1536
> Home email: Glenn.Fulford@paradise.net.nz  Fax:     +64 4 922 1380
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