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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printing underlined text
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.185652.7460@mccc.uucp>
Date: 14 Nov 90 18:56:52 GMT
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Reply-To: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <1990Nov12.183213.8920@ssd.kodak.com> weimer@ssd.kodak.com (Gary Weimer) writes:
=Another improvement:
=
=printf( "_^HU_^Hn_^Hd_^He_^Hr_^Hl_^Hi_^Hn_^He_^Hd _^Ht_^He_^Hx_^Ht\n" );
=
=Although this is much less readable, most "smart" terminals, as well as
=printers will know how to handle this (see nroff output).

Only "smart" printers can handle "real-time" backspacing.  Our dot
matrix printers won't so we like the "print the underline, return the
carriage, print the text" approach.  I don't think that lasers are smart
enough, either.

Pete
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