title: Colored Output with Cygwin Commands on cmd
body: <p>Operating system: Windows XP SP3 (Unfortunately)</p>
  
  <p>I have downloaded and installed the latest version of Cygwin and Git.  I also have configured my environment to include the "bin" folders for each in my system path and also set a user variable TERM=msys.  I can now go into cmd and use the following command, for example:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>git status</p>
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  <p>and get colored output, i.e. for status, changes to be committed are green, while untracked files and such are red.  This was not the case without having set TERM=msys.</p>
  
  <p>However, since I also added the Cygwin bin to my path, I can use</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>ls</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>to get a directory listing, but not with colored output.  Am I correct in assuming that, since I'm only using the binaries through cmd, and not Cygwin itself, that getting colored output would have to be done differently from just configuring a BASH profile?  Assuming this is possible; however it would seem to follow that if it can be done with Git, then it can also be done with the Cygwin binaries.</p>
  
  <p>I'd be happy to elaborate or clarify any details.  Thanks.</p>