Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.2) 9/5/84; site scc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!mhuxn!houxm!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!pesnta!scc!steiny 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 Article-I.D.: scc.264 Posted: Mon Dec 3 13:44:22 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Dec-84 00:10:56 EST References: <> <1951@nsc.UUCP> Organization: Personetics, Inc. - Santa Cruz, Calif. Lines: 41 > 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. -- scc!steiny Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 109 Torrey Pine Terr. Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 ihnp4!pesnta -\ fortune!idsvax -> scc!steiny ucbvax!twg -/