Subject: Flashing text

From: [email-masked] (Mark David Dittmer)
Date: 22 Jun 1995 01:35:09 -0600

I recently saw an e-mail message with part of the .sig flashing.
How could I create flashing text in part of my .sig?

Sorry if this has been discussed already, but I'd really like to
know how I can do this!
-Mark

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From: Don Sugarman <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 08:45:44 -0400 (EDT)

> Sorry if this has been discussed already, but I'd really like to
Although I don't have the commands handy, I would like to mention that 
the ANSI commands for blinking, bold, inverse, underline, cursor 
positioning, etc., can mess up terminals/emulators that do not recognize 
those commands. 

I found this out through a humbling experience when I forwarded a really 
neat Thanksgiving message with a turkey walking into an oven and 
coming out cooked.  One of my contacts wrote back that it locked her 
terminal and she had to disconnect to reset.  Others loved it.

You can get the specific commands for the various terminals from the 
termcap or terminfo files on your system.

For those with ANSI-compatible terminals, I am appending the famous 
turkey message. You have to <spacebar> through it.  (You can examine the 
message for the commands used to create it.)

     DON'T READ BEYOND THIS POINT IF YOU ARE NOT PREPARED FOR THE
     POSSIBILITY OF LOCKING UP YOUR TERMINAL....


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From: Dave Saville <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 13:35:36 +0100

> How could I create flashing text in part of my .sig?

It can be done but it is *NOT A GOOD IDEA*. Depending on lots of things, 
amongst them: 

If your mail reader is ok; 
If you have the right hardware;

Odd ascii escape sequences in your mail *MAY* produce the result you 
intended.

More often it will screw the screen up for some poor sod reading the message.

David C. Saville
Tel: +44 1293 556326

Second star on the right and straight on 'til morning.
Capt. James T. Kirk (Quoting Peter Pan)