Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!VM.UOGUELPH.CA!SOFPJF From: SOFPJF@VM.UOGUELPH.CA (Peter Jaspers-Fayer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: wsh color escape sequences Message-ID: <9103271204.aa05744@VGR.BRL.MIL> Date: 27 Mar 91 16:41:02 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: Computing Services, University of Guelph, Ont. Can. N1G 2W1 Lines: 169 I don't know anything about rulers in wsh, but as for wsh character colours, these (ported from an IBM PC running ANSI.SYS, yet!) may help. Have a look at the file below (just `cat` it, then peek with `vi`.) It's UUEncoded, 'cause I dunno what MAIL would do to it (suspect the results would not be salubrious!). Use `uudecode` this_thing to use it. In conjunction with the "wshcolor" escape sequence, ("\033""[101;$1/y") you can do just about anything you want. ------ *snip* ------ *snip* ------ *snip* ------ *snip* ------ *snip* ------ begin 644 colors M5&AI2!A M2$@*BH*(`IM ` end -------- Snip here too, but maybe UUDECODE does not care ---------------- /PJ SofPJF@VM.UoGuelph.Ca