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From: steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Re: FYI: underlining/highlighting in news articles
Message-ID: <264@scc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 13:44:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 13:44:22 1984
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Organization: Personetics, Inc. - Santa Cruz, Calif.
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> In article <132@osu-eddie.UUCP> karl@osu-eddie.UUCP writes:
> >Greetings. I have received  quite  a  bit  of  mail  in the recent past from
> >people who are wondering how I get reverse-video or underlining into my  net
> >postings. 
> 
> 1) These actions are NOT recommended because they only work if the terminal
> on the other end happens to be compatible with yous. There are many
> terminals out there guaranteed not to be, and control sequences can do
> unexpected things and upset the person reading the article. We've had cases
> where people have accidently locked, reset, or otherwise made a terminal
> unusable or unreadable.
> 
> 2) Many versions of news eat any potentially dangerous control characters.
> I believe that 2.10.2 (and perhaps 2.10.1) will only allow \n, \r, and \h,
> making everything else go away. 
> 
> The end result is-- most people either won't see it, or will see garbage.
> Some people will probably get dinged, and that isn't a way to make friends
> and influence (positively) people. This topic comes up every six months or
> so, and every six months or so we remind people that doing these things is
> potentially dangerous and shouldn't be done.
> 
	NO NO, this is not what he is doing he is using the sequence

	underbar backspace character 

	for underlining and "more" interprets it for the terminal
highlighting.  If the terminal does not have highlight mode, or the
system does not have "more", all that happens is that it prints
the underbar, backspace, and then the character so it makes a
funny jerking at the  underlined characters.


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