Path: 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: Date: 5 Jul 89 18:45:44 GMT References: <113461@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <1518@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> <113567@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <113637@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> 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 -- (setq mail '("tale@pawl.rpi.edu" "tale@itsgw.rpi.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet")) "Drinking coffee for instant relaxation? That's like drinking alcohol for instant motor skills." -- Marc Price