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From: rostamia@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Rouben Rostamian)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Blinking characters in an xterm
Message-ID: <2294@umbc3.UMBC.EDU>
Date: 12 Sep 89 18:50:46 GMT
Organization: Univ of Maryland Baltimore County
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Is there a way to generate blinking text characters in an xterm?  
The vt100 blink escape sequence "ESC[1m" generates only bold characters
in an xterm, as the documentation suggests.

I am running X on a DECstation3100.  Some of my applications 
call for blinking text characters.  Although I can run these 
in a dxterm --- dxterm supports the complete set of vt100 
escapes, including the one for blinking characters --- I prefer 
xterm since it starts up faster.

Any comments?


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Rouben Rostamian                               Phone: 301 455-2458
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