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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointer</LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: "Jon A. Lambert" <<A HREF="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</A>></LI>
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On 28 Jul 98, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 21:18:19 -0700 (MST)
> Ben Greear<greear#cyberhighway,net> wrote:
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> > The players keep yelping at me to provide some ansi color, but I'm
> > clueless on the art, so I thought I'd see if any of you had any
> > pointers? Surely I'm not the only one to be faced with this
> > scourge!
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> A partial VT220 table (now if only I could find my original DEC VT220
> manuals):
>
I recall that under ANSI (perhaps this was more DOS specific) there
was a way to stuff "format C:\rY\r" into the keyboard buffer. It had
interesting repercussions in typing ansi messages at a DOS shell or
reading ANSI mail under certain mailers that had shell support.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00391" HREF="msg00391.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointers.</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Tue 28 Jul 1998, 04:58 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00392" HREF="msg00392.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointers.</A></strong>,
Katrina McClelan <a href="mailto:kitkat#the486,bradley.edu">kitkat#the486,bradley.edu</a>, Tue 28 Jul 1998, 05:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00398" HREF="msg00398.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointers.</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00408" HREF="msg00408.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointers.</A></strong>,
Ben Greear <a href="mailto:greear#cyberhighway,net">greear#cyberhighway,net</a>, Wed 29 Jul 1998, 00:29 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00458" HREF="msg00458.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointer</A></strong>,
Jon A. Lambert <a href="mailto:jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com">jlsysinc#ix,netcom.com</a>, Mon 03 Aug 1998, 04:28 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00459" HREF="msg00459.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointer</A></strong>,
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