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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 May 2002.
Re: curious about coloring ascii

Re: curious about coloring ascii

LGB wrote:

>>> > >The opening screens of a MUD that I hang out on are what I want to
>>color.
>>> > >It's via telnet
>>> >
>>> > Oh, use ANSI in that case. :)
>>>
>>> There were once drawing programs for ANSI.
>>>
>>> Aciddraw or ansidraw or something like that .. I really can't remember
>>>
> What about rich text (rtf). would it work? its crossplatforms fairly easy
> with very little loss to my understanding.

No he needs to draw with ANSI, rtf isn't compatible. The thing is that when 
a client connects to the MUD it converts the ANSI codes into colour on the 
fly.

I picked up these websites recently. I'm not sure if it was here or in 
alt.mud.programming.

ANSI/VT100 codes
http://www.fh-jena.de/~gmueller/Kurs_halle/esc_vt100.html

Telnet Protocol
http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~jphb/comms/telnet.html

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Richard :)

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