Subject: ANSI escape codes for Pine?

From: [email-masked] (Jon Keene)
Date: 18 May 1995 19:31:06 GMT

I've received some messages in my Pine account that incorporate
bold (nice) and flashing (nasty) text.  When I look at the messages
using vi I see what looks like ANSI escape codes surrounding
the altered text, but I've been unable to duplicate it.

Can anyone clue me in?  Do I need any special entries in my
.pinerc file?

Thanks a lot,
Jon

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 May 1995 10:45:53 +0100 (BST)

This is actually something I would definitiely like to see disabled 
(possibly under the control of an option in the configuration screen).

It is not unknown for people to receive such messages with (possibly 
accidentally included, courtesy of other operating systems) funny control 
sequences that mess up their terminal when reading messages.

In fact with certain types of terminal/terminal emulator the possibility 
of including such control characters for "display" by Pine can cause more 
serious problems (eg, locking up of terminals) and even security problems.

I would *really* like to see control characters (including Escape) 
filtered out/displayed as "real" text when a message is displayed within 
Pine.

Mike Brudenell                                               <[email-masked]>
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