Subj : that trick never works To : Maurice Kinal From : mark lewis Date : Sat Apr 13 2019 21:39:42 On 2019 Apr 13 22:15:28, you wrote to me: ml>> there were also ^A codes as well as ANSI codes... MK> Those survived and I wasn't sure they were in your original as such. I MK> didn't count them but there are quite a few of them as well as \r's from MK> hell. yeah, GoldED trashed it at some point... it didn't remain at the end of the message where i put it... when i read your first post about it, i went back and looked and GE has broken it all to hell... ml>> i see ANSI graphics posted in one or two of the BBS ads echos ml>> all the time... MK> Hm. Maybe I should pick one of those up. Any recommendations? not recommendations, per s‚... BBS_ADS BBS_PROMOTION ml>> i'll have to try to dig one out... MK> I'd prefer the St. Patrick's one if available. I now need closure since MK> you brought it up. would a graphic work instead of the farkled ANSI? ml>> that should not be needed with what i do... MK> Sounds great. The little I've done with ansi graphics I've made it a point MK> to follow a similar plan. In my case it was only to colourize messages on MK> a console. yeah, that's what a lot of folks used to do... in some of the networks that are mainly ANSI graphic oriented, there's a lot of that and you almost have to read posts online via an ANSI capable terminal... ml>> i don't know at this point... MK> Understood. Anyhow back when it mattered to me I found rxvt to be the MK> terminal of choice in GUI-land. If I am recalling correctly it was with MK> the -rv and -ls switches turned on by default. Same with xterm now that I MK> think about it. i think the term i use is konsole... it comes with KDE and i've just never looked into trying any others... i don't know what the regular text-based console is when i switch over to it via CTRL-ALT-F1 but it is the standard TTY interface... i have six of those there via ALT-F1-6 and ALT-F7 brings me back into the GUI... )\/(ark Always Mount a Scratch Monkey Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong... .... Etiquette: Saying "No, thank you," when you want to yell, "GIMME!!!" --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.73) .