new user: how to get white background

[Earnie Boyd]

--- "Fulford, Glenn" <FulfordG@agresearch.cri.nz> 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.) 
> 

This has nothing to do with Cygwin or Unix, it is the default you have set for
your MSDOS window.  You can change it using the normal MSDOS properties windows
to do it.

Cheers,

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