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From: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Screen attributes and elm
Message-ID: <6666@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 90 18:15:07 GMT
References: <723@ncs.dnd.ca>
Reply-To: rob@PacBell.COM (Rob Bernardo)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <723@ncs.dnd.ca> marwood@ncs.dnd.ca (Gordon Marwood) writes:
+It seems that elm ignores screen attributes, e.g. bold, compared with
+the Berkeley mail which will respond to them.  I am assuming that elm
+probably filters out some of the control characters, though I am not
+sure about this.  Is this something that can be changed prior to
+compiling.  We are running elm 2.2 PL0 at the moment.

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you talking about escape sequences that
manipulate screen attributes in the mail message itself? If so, and if
you are using ELM's builtin pager to display your message, they won't be
output. The builtin pager displays non-printing characters with ^X notation.
Thus what was an escape sequence in the message gets converted to something
which your terminal doesn't take to be an attributing setting sequence.
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