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From: lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Lumsdon)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: A question from a net.virgin
Message-ID: <929@nems.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 2 Feb 90 21:02:49 GMT
References: <25ba4305.5a74@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <271@toaster.SFSU.EDU>
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Reply-To: lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Esther Lumsdon)
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In article <271@toaster.SFSU.EDU> eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>In article <25ba4305.5a74@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
>        jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck) writes:
>>I have setenv TERM vt100 set on my unix environment, and am using PROCOMM
>>on my PC for logging in.  Apparently my newsreader knows how to change
>>the underlines into appropriate escape sequences for a vt100 terminal.
>
>... and on my Zenith-29 screen I see honest-to-goodness
>underlined text.
>
>If your newsreader can't display
>underlined text
>properly, there's probably something wrong with your newsreader,

Not necessarily. ProComm emulates vt102, not vt100 (Procomm 2.4 and
2.4.2, and ProComm Plus 1.1a). The definition of a vt102 terminal says
_don't_ do underlining and bold if there's a color video card; change the
color. When I run ProComm on the secretary's monochrome PC at work I
see underlines; when I run ProComm on my PC at home, I see color changes.

Note that I did not say that the newsreader cannot affect this; only
that it's not the only player in the game.

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