Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: FYI: underlining/highlighting in news articles Message-ID: <1963@nsc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 14:50:20 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.1963 Posted: Tue Dec 4 14:50:20 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Dec-84 01:06:25 EST Organization: Plaid Heaven Lines: 41 References <> <1951@nsc.UUCP> <264@scc.UUCP> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) Distribution: Organization: Plaid Heaven Keywords: Summary: > NO NO, this is not what he is doing he is using the sequence > > underbar backspace character > The reason I said what I said is because not everyone will limit themselves to the underbar backspace character approach. It's happened on a couple of occasions in the past, and invariably someone decides to get cute and pull out their VT100 reference manual-- in go the graphics characters, the double width, the double height, you name it, someone will see how NEAT it makes the article look on their terminal and send it out. Unfortunately, for all of those nice people on HP terminals a VT100 double width command is, at best, meaningless and can do very strange things to their terminal. Besides, not everyone uses more as their pager, so even the action of the underbar backspace character sequence is really undefined. It is PROBABLY harmless, but not guaranteed. The net is such a large collection of incompatible hardware that we need to keep things as simple and compatible as possible or we're going to ding someone out there. Anytime you get fancy, someone is going to have some piece of hardware or software that breaks on it. I STILL don't recommend playing these games-- someone is going to get burned by it. chuq -- From the center of a Plaid pentagram: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA ~But you know, monsieur, that as long as she wears the claw of the dragon upon her breast you can do nothing-- her soul belongs to me!~