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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: A question from a net.virgin
Message-ID: <25ba4305.5a74@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 21 Jan 90 23:17:25 GMT
Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <EJO.90Jan21131659@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> ejo@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Eric Olson) writes:
>In article <252@comcon.UUCP> roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
>
>>   _R_o_y _M_. _S_i_l_v_e_r_n_a_i_l  | UUCP: uunet!comcon!roy  |  "Every race must arrive at this
>
>What is WITH this _^H* business?  Are you hoping that EVERYONE who is reading
>your stuff will be on a hardcopy terminal so they can get the full effect of

Interestingly enough, when I see the above, it appears in YELLOW on my
color screen, while the rest of the text is white!  The Subject: line
also appears in yellow.

I have setenv TERM vt100 set on my unix environment, and am using PROCOMM
on my PC for logging in.  Apparently my newsreader knows how to change
the underlines into appropriate escape sequences for a vt100 terminal.

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
ESL: 62013975 Tel: 805-545-9549          Tanenbaum's MINIX operating system.