ANSWER: COLORS

Albert <eap...@aldebaran.oac.uci.edu> wrote:

> A while back someone posted an explanation of how colors and some other 
> commands work.  I know that in  ^[[5;1;32m  5 makes things blink, 1 makes 
> them high intensity, and 32m is bright green.  What I have trouble with 
> is that this is exactly what I type and the characters following it don't 
> change and the code shows, even after I mail it to someone.

> Any help would be appreciated.

^[ doesn't work as far as I know.  Here's the easy way.

If you still have that ansi, import that ansiinto any normal ascii
editing program that has a Search/Replace feature.  

OK, Search for ^[ and replace all occurances of that with the ansi
<esc> code.  That's Ascii-27 (the left pointing arrow character) and
you should be able to enter it by holding down the <Alt> key and enter
"27" on the Number Pad and then let go of the <Alt> key.  If you don't
get the <- character, you need to use a better editing program. <g>

However, even if you do get the <- character in there, it STILL won't
work if you upload that ansi as a message on the InterNet cuz most
systems run Unix, and Unix don't know from DOS' <- character.  It'll
be clobbered, ruining the ansi.

What to do?  Send it up as a UUEncoded message.  Using a Reader
program like FreeAgent, that's done automagically by the program if
you file attach the straight ansi code file.

I'm posting this as I just saw you message, but I'll follow-up
privately with a ansi and some simple (I hope) instructions on 
how to see the ansi.

Joey.. er... NumbNutz  <g>

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