Subject: text-question

From: *--Seabert--* <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 16:15:43 +0200

Hello, 

how do i get words underlined or in italics using pine?

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 13:02:45 -0400

> how do i get words underlined or in italics using pine?

    Probably you cannot.  Pine seems to be designed to transmit and
receive straight ASCII text (with the possibility of 8-bit character
sets).  To accomplish underlining or italicization, you would need to
transmit control characters along with your text.  The problem is that
unless you are operating in a very tightly controlled environment, you
have no control over the hardware and software any particular recipient
is using, and different control characters could do different things to
various recipients, including a hard lockup.

    This seems to be the situation with email and newsgroups in
general.  If you want fancy features, you need to go to the World Wide
Web and graphical browsers.

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