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From: rickc@iddic.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.general,net.news
Subject: ANSI on the net revisited
Message-ID: <1688@iddic.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-May-84 17:21:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 23 17:21:56 1984
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Well, the results are in: there are some terminals on the net that crash
with ANSI X3.64 control sequences. So, it is unreasonable to randomly
pepper articles with these sequences.

HOWEVER, A PROPOSAL: that the subject headers of articles that contain
the word ANSI to alert those whose terminals die to use the 'n' key,
much like the 'rot13' in jokes. OBVIOUSLY, do NOT use such sequences in
subject lines.

FURTHERMORE, use only the 'select graphic rendition' command
- these would be the most useful commands.  Specifically:
<ESC>[0 (normal),<ESC>[1 (bold),<ESC>[4 (underscore),<ESC>[5 (blink),
and <ESC>[7 (reverse video).

I KNOW that there are those who will be upset because there will be some
articles that they cannot read without going through some contortions;
however, do we have to be universally limited to the lowest common denominator?
Will it be impossible to try new ideas on the net?

						Rick Coates
						tektronix!iddic!rickc