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From: syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Screen attributes and elm
Message-ID: <1990Jan4.140737.19573@DSI.COM>
Date: 4 Jan 90 14:07:37 GMT
References: <723@ncs.dnd.ca>
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Organization: Datacomp Systems, Inc.  Huntingdon Valley, PA
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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.
Elm's internal pager does indeed do nothing about them.  However,
the external pagers do whatever the external pager is configured
to do about it.  Less will handle them just fine.
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Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP                   Elm Coordinator
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