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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news
Subject: Re: ANSI mode for text enhancement?
Message-ID: <1265@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 14-Apr-84 18:30:10 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr 14 18:30:10 1984
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In fact, the netnews software currently strips all control characters
(except for safe ones like return, newline, and tab) out of all news
that passes through it.  The reason for this is that someone once
posted a message that had the HP 2621 underline command in it.  On
HP terminals, it underlined the text beautifully when displayed by
readnews.  On a Concept 100, it locked the keyboard.

I think (but am not sure) that you can underline things using backspaces
or carriage returns and _ characters, and have them pass through
unmolested.  If the reader is using the "more" program to display news
(which is often the default), more may display it underlined.  I would
suggest experimentation before trying this, things like which method you
use to underline and whether the text or the underlines come first
probably matter, especially if the reader does NOT use more.