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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: FYI: underlining/highlighting in news articles
Message-ID: <656@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 01:15:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 01:15:26 1984
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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. 
> 
> Please note a couple of things:
> 
> 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.

Mr. Kleinpaste's suggestion was to use underscore-backspace-character
combinations, and then the reader could use an appropriate filter to
do highlighting on their terminal.  (This works very nicely with the
hp(1) filter for my hp2621).

I know of no terminals that gag on backspaces, except perhaps some
very stupid hardcopy terminals.
-- 
Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,sun}!amdahl!gam

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