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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/