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Using Cygwin's Color CMD Window on the Solaris OS

Alec Effrat, April 2007

Cygwin is a Linux-like environment for Windows. To use the color CMD window provided by Cygwin on a machine that runs the Solaris Operating System, here are two things to do:

1. Upload the Cygwin termcap file. (I uploaded the one from Cygwin and it worked perfectly.) To do this, copy the file from Cygwin's /usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin directory to your Solaris machine's $HOME/.terminfo/c/cygwin directory.

2. Add the following to your .cshrc file:

tput longname
if ( $status == 3 ) then
  echo "Searching Home Directory for TERMINFO"
  setenv TERMINFO "$HOME/.terminfo"
  set term=$term
  tput longname
endif

Note: If you don't want the information about your current terminal name, you can just redirect the tput commands to /dev/null.

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