Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 11/03/84 (WLS Mods); site astrovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!wls From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: FYI: underlining/highlighting in news articles Message-ID: <507@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 13:31:35 EST Article-I.D.: astrovax.507 Posted: Thu Dec 6 13:31:35 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Dec-84 02:06:42 EST References: <2@osu-eddie.UUCP> <669@watcgl.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 14 > 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". -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls