Subject: Blinking letters?

From: [email-masked] (Yong-Rim Rhee)
Date: 10 Feb 1995 00:54:03 GMT

I just received an email from a friend asking me how I could type in bliking 
letter on the subject line.  I sure as hell don't know and didn't even know it 
was possible.  I've seen some people post an article with weird characters 
(those extended-ascii) and I would like to know how I can do this.  Any help 
would be appreciated.  Please email

Yongrim

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From: Dave Saville <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 1995 11:16:21 +0000

> would be appreciated.  Please email

Yes it IS possible to put escape sequences into almost anything. The 
question is if one SHOULD. Most often they only work for a certain 
combination of software & hardware. Sending an odd escape sequence to an 
unknown setup could screw their session window or worse. Of course it 
MIGHT actually work. Not advised practice. 

David C. Saville  [email-masked]
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From: [email-masked] (Jack or Aura Dean)
Date: 10 Feb 1995 08:33:29 -0500

In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950210111345.4442E-100000@nuthatch>,
>David C. Saville  [email-masked]

I agree that it is probably not a great idea, but it is an interesting 
question.  How Do you put the escape sequences into PINE.  Is it editor 
dependent?  I believe our system uses PICO

Thanks

Jack Dean

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From: L_Man <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 1995 12:10:52 -0800

> would be appreciated.  Please email

yes it is quite possible indeed it has been done :-) btw if you are
a dos user you need ansi.sys installed in your config.sys
like so:
device=c:\dos\ansi.sys

I'm not sure about other OS's

however i know escape sequences do some funky things with windows. 
my login is in color and windows "jumps" back from my prompt when i log in
so i have take the mouse and scroll down back to my prompt which returns
to the default crl%.

if anyone wants to see an example i'll be more and happy to mail you
one. Then you can save it to file and edit it down and insert it
in any documents you wish :-)

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