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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: FYI: underlining/highlighting in news articles
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Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 13:31:35 EST
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> Besides, the "news software" does NOT handle highlighting as a feature.
> B news is just tolerant enough not to throw away backspaces in its input;
> this may be changed at some point in the future.  RN, perhaps, may handle
> the highlighting, but that isn't part of the standard news distribution.
> Readnews may send articles over a certain length through more(1) on systems
> that have it, but not all do.  So please don't assume that because a
> feature works on your machine it is a standard, designed-in feature.
> 	Dave Martindale

vnews also handles Underlining/Highlighting and it is part of the 2.10.2
distribution.  Thus to that extent it is a "standard, designed-in feature".
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Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics
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