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Original Usenet message from rec.arts.ascii, 1 Sep 1995.
ANSWER: COLORS

ANSWER: COLORS

3AA> A while back someone posted an explanation of how colors and some other3
3AA> commands work.  I know that in  ^[[5;1;32m  5 makes things blink, 1 mak3
3AA> them high intensity, and 32m is bright green.  What I have trouble with3
3AA> is that this is exactly what I type and the characters following it don3
3AA> change and the code shows, even after I mail it to someone.            3
3AA>                                                                        3
3AA> Any help would be appreciated.                                         3
TMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM>

One thing to remember [I'll use the code ^[[0m^[[7m, or turn on plain text,
then invert]:

It looks like ^[[0m^[[7m, but the ^[ is ESC... So, you hit

<ESCAPE> [ 0 m <ESCAPE> [ 7 m     [no spaces]

Good luck.
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From: kei...@enest.com (KEITH PEPIN)
Subject: ANSWER: COLORS
Date: 1995/09/01
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