WARNING: Control Codes
From Colin Douthwaite <cfb...@southern.co.nz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 21 Dec 1996 00:00 · View full thread
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WARNING
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Control Codes:
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PLEASE do *NOT* post Colour, Color, Control Codes or Animation Codes
to ASCII-ART newsgroups - or indeed ANY Internet newsgroup.
It can cause an awful lot of trouble on Net systems worldwide.
If you wish to post Raw Code then UUENCODE it first !
Colour & Color Control Codes in subject titles and headers should be
avoided entirely.
Extended Character Set:
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The only Ascii characters which should be posted and used in Ascii
Art are:
Decimal characters 32 to 127.
The Extended Character Set of Decimal 128 to 255 made by using the
Alt key, and used for ANSI pictures, must be UUencoded before
posting to the Net and should not be used in ASCII artwork pictures.
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Please do NOT post Colour & Color Control Codes in message headers
and titles.
The problems are due to some Net software recognising the
Raw Code as commands which make the software do unwanted
things and can even cause a system to crash.
This message is being reposted frequently because many newcomers
to the Net do not seem to know the problems caused by Control Codes.
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Original message headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,12c0f227c6fd958c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-Thread: 110f55,12c0f227c6fd958c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid110f55,public X-Google-Thread: fd588,12c0f227c6fd958c,start X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public From: cfb...@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite) Subject: WARNING: Control Codes Date: 1996/12/21 Message-ID: <59haig$so...@orm.southern.co.nz>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 205314626 organization: Southern InterNet Services newsgroups: alt.ascii-art,alt.ascii-art.animation,alt.binaries.pictures.ascii
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