Subj : Re: 1984.ws
To   : Digital Man
From : tenser
Date : Sun Jun 04 2023 06:41 am

On 02 Jun 2023 at 12:16p, Digital Man pondered and said...
 
 DM>  > One could also just do what the Kitty guy said
 DM>  > (admittedly in a jerky way...) and not try to
 DM>  > overload bold attributes for bright colors.
 DM>  >
 DM>  > He was obnoxious about it, but he's not wrong
 DM>  > about the technical merits.
 DM> 
 DM> History says he's wrong. But it's the hill he's chosen to die on. <shrug>

Yeah it seems like a dumb thing to get all bent over,
particularly when someone already sent him a patch.

 DM>  >  fu> i think it's a reasonable assertion. if the sysop has no tradition
 DM>  >  fu> ansi on the whole board, then thumbs up i guess.
 DM>  >
 DM>  > Right so...it depends on the BBS system?  :-)
 DM> 
 DM> "will not work" is probably too binary an assertion in this case.
 DM> Different terminals display stuff (colors, fonts, glyphs) differently,
 DM> but the main features of a BBS should continue to work just fine.

Indeed.

Hmm.  Now I'm mildly curious what ncurses does for its
color presets.

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