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From: joee@orca.UUCP (Joe Eckardt)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news
Subject: Re: ANSI mode for text enhancement?
Message-ID: <775@orca.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Apr-84 14:10:31 EST
Article-I.D.: orca.775
Posted: Fri Apr 13 14:10:31 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Apr-84 08:57:45 EST
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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Please do NOT use ANSI codes for text enhancments!  There ARE terminals that
die an untimely death when they receive some of those codes.  My CT-8500 is,
unfortunately, one of them.  I know there are others but don't know them by
model.  (At very best a burst of ANSI codes generally leaves the screen 
locked in inverse video, or all underlined, or turns off the cursor.  More
often it also locks up the keyboard.)

There NOTHING worse than getting a letter bomb which leaves your terminal
in such a state that the power must be cycled to unlock things.  This is
particularly annoying when you are on a dialup and cycling the power also
drops the line requiring you to redial in.

PLEASE refrain from inbedding ANSI codes!  Thanks.


			Joe Eckardt
			Tektronix 
			Wilsonville, Oregon

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