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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 7 Mar 1996.
Re: ASCII signature you've never seen before.

Re: ASCII signature you've never seen before.

In article <4hl8t5$ad...@abel.cc.sunysb.edu>,
   bgr...@ic.sunysb.edu (Eli the bearded) wrote:
>Oogly Man <use...@tabbs.com> wrote:
>>Well, if everybody would just load an ANSi driver then you could have the 
>>same characters  (just can't post cntrl codes)
>
>There exist hundreds or thousands of different terminal
>types that are reading netnews. While a lot of those are
>capible using an ANSI mode, it is far from all of them.

Isn't it possible to send potentially harmful DOS commands via ANSI?  That's a 
good excuse for PC owners to not load the ANSI.SYS driver.

Tim

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Subject: Re: ASCII signature you've never seen before.
Date: 1996/03/07
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