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- Added aliasing of colors whose numeric value falls below 32. In other words,
- where a color used to compile into a control code that could be interpreted
- as a non-oANSI control character, it is preceded by a ^P and its high bit is
- turned on.
-
- This makes some of the previously impossible tasks available. Before using
- aliasing, it was a no-no to use something like this:
-
- [sline]Hello, [lightgreen]sysop.
-
- The problem with it was that [lightgreen] compiled into ^J which is the control
- code for a new line (line feed). That meant that the word "sysop" was displayed
- to everyone. [sline] asked to have it displayed to the sysop only, but because
- ^J placed it onto a new line, everyone could see it.
-
- This is no longer the case. Any color combination can be safely used under all
- circumstances.
-
- MONITOR was adjusted accordingly. In its previous version, it missed the code
- for aliasing altogether. Now it interprets it correctly. It will also interpret
- SOME of the OEC codes (e.g. [quote],[user]). Not all of them. It will prompt
- you to press ENTER to continue when OEC is telling it to. But it will not wait
- for you to hit ENTER. The reason? Remember that MONITOR is used as a DOS
- filter. Because of that, it takes its input from OECC output and ignores the
- keyboard. Thus it cannot wait for you to press ENTER, or it would be waiting
- for ever.
-
- Thanks to Ted Powell for pointing out the problem.
-