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From: Edward Farrow <wildwing@darkside.demon.co.uk>
Subject: .ans files on unix
Date: 1997/06/13
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In a message of 10 Jun 97 Starly Bull wrote to All:

 SB> I'm trying to display some .ans files on a unix machine. When I cat the
 SB> file everything comes out fine but I cannot escape out of it. It will
 SB> not return a prompt.

 SB> Im using tcsh on a bsd machine. I've tried ^c , ^d and everything else
 SB> i can think of. Is there a character that I should put at the end of the
 SB> ..ans file to make it return the prompt?

   Your best bet is to end the text file with an escape code followed by [0m
which /should/ turn off all ansi codes. 

   I.e. ^[[0m

   The Escape character is Ascii code 27.

so it would be <Esc>[0m

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