.ans files on unix
From Edward Farrow <wil...@darkside.demon.co.uk>
· alt.ascii-art
· 13 Jun 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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In a message of 10 Jun 97 Starly Bull wrote to All:
SB> I'm trying to display some .ans files on a unix machine. When I cat the
SB> file everything comes out fine but I cannot escape out of it. It will
SB> not return a prompt.
SB> Im using tcsh on a bsd machine. I've tried ^c , ^d and everything else
SB> i can think of. Is there a character that I should put at the end of the
SB> ..ans file to make it return the prompt?
Your best bet is to end the text file with an escape code followed by [0m
which /should/ turn off all ansi codes.
I.e. ^[[0m
The Escape character is Ascii code 27.
so it would be <Esc>[0m
_______ ________ . .---. .---------Amiga-Aztec---------.
/. ____/ \_____ .\ |nfusion--' | [#------------------------] |
_// _)_____/. |// \ Developments | 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% |
\. \_ // \_ __ _ `-----------------------------'
`\___________/_// //./// .--+44 (0)336 738 132-------------.
" "" """"""""""\______//_//"" " | www.infj.ulst.ac.uk/~ckx525/ed/ |
wil...@darkside.demon.co.uk `---------------------------------'
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