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Article #323Re: binmail vs MMDF mail file format
From: David C Lawrence
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1989 18:45
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 1989 18:45
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In <Jul.5.02.12.10.1989.3266@NET.BIO.NET> lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) writes:
lear> Actually, strictly speaking, USENET software can handle a number of
lear> control characters, like ESCAPE. Don't you ever see those messages
lear> with vt100 underline codes?
Strictly speaking, most USENET software doesn't handle \027, at least
not around here. I had put in a trojan horse to close people's
windows in Suntools when they read my message ... the mail ones
worked, but news wouldn't. The ESC was being stripped.
Most of the underlining you see being done in news articles is
accomplished because \008 does get passed undisturbed. To underline
something, you can follow each character to be underlined with a \008_
and it will come out however your environment is configured to handle
this special case. (In GNUS, I don't get anything but a bunch of
seeming gibberish because the underlined region is all expanded.)
Dave
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,alt.religion.computers Subject: Re: binmail vs MMDF mail file format Message-ID: <TALE.89Jul5144544@imagine.pawl.rpi.edu> Date: 5 Jul 89 18:45:44 GMT References: <113461@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1518@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <113567@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <WISNER.89Jul3114848@anableps.berkeley.edu> <113637@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <WISNER.89Jul4170048@anableps.berkeley.edu> <NELSON.89Jul4220946@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <WISNER.89Jul4195054@an Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Lines: 22 In-reply-to: lear@NET.BIO.NET's message of 5 Jul 89 09:12:11 GMT