Re: WARNING: Control Codes

In article <364...@spamfree.land>, Matthew Thomas
<mpt...@spamfree.land> wrote:
> 
> Hilton Janfield wrote:
> >
[snip]
> > > >      BBS systems which pull newsgroups many times use "pipe" color
> > > > codes, meaning that the | followed immediately by a number will
> > > > produce colors on some systems, such as mine.  This is not
> > > > intentional but can be annoying as it produces unpredictable
> > > > results.
[snip]
> > What he means is that BBS' interpret them as control codes.
> > I should know - I've run a variety of BBS systems.
> >
> > On most modern free or cheap BBS softwares, a | symbol followed by
> > 00-15 will produce colors. i.e. |04 would produce red. % is also used
> > on many, as info codes - i.e. %UN on many systems will display the
> > user's name.
[snip]
> If BBS software is stupid
> enough to use printable ASCII characters such as | to influence its
> display, I have no sympathy for the software at all.
> 
> We in the group are certainly not going to stop using the | character in
> our pictures just because some silly BBS software reacts strangely to
> it. As I say, the vast majority of people subscribed to this group are
> not reading it through a BBS.

So, let me get this straight. A pipe | followed by a number from 00-15
causes the BBS to change colour? I have a perverse desire to draw
something using those very things so that it will look completely normal
to us but have a little message for those unfortunates who insist on
reading alt.ascii-art in BBS.

        ___           ha
      _/   |   \_,^%--- ha
     |_____|     <\ \ ha        But it's just too
       ---  ==   >/               |-| /-\ |2 |)
     [_____]   __>,^         to think of something
  ejm |   |   //| |

However, I'm sure that someone else can come up with something
wonderful!

         , ,
         |00)
        /  `)        <------ it sort of looks like an owl to me.
  ejm  /   "                   what does it look like on BBS?


NOTE: I do not pick up my mail from the idirect address that you
see. If you are e-mailing me and hit the reply button, add an "e"
to "freent"; its absense is to stop the torment of automatic mailers.
--
       ___          ha            cq547@freene+.+oron+o.on.ca
     _/   |    ,^%--- ha                      llizard aka ejm
    |11___|  __<_ \ ha
      --- ==   >/
    [_____]  __>,^          ASCII-ar+, ASCII & gif anima+ions
  ejm|   |  //| |        www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9334/

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