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- From: king@rtsg.mot.com (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
- Subject: Re: JRCOMM-blink
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.152450.11563@rtsg.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1992Nov14.232625.2949@news.ysu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:24:50 GMT
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- ac463@yfn.ysu.edu (Rich Yauman) publicly declared:
- >A while back I asked why Blinking characters from IBM boards
- >don't blink, and Jack gave a good explanation as to what made
- >this unfeasable. But how's this for an alternate. Make it so
- >what blinks on an IBM is italic or bold or some other attribute could
- >be assigned to it, to make it so that even if we don't have blinking
- >we do have something. Possibly it could be a requester that could be
- >set with the defaults, so that the user can select how he wants
- >blinking text treated, or if he just wants it be treated the way it is now.
-
- I believe JRComm uses bold for blinking characters. (Based on an
- observation while testing my BBS the other night.) It's not very
- noticable. The Amiga's bold isn't a different intensity, just the
- characters "smeared" a pixel or two over. ATalkIII, at least the old
- version I had, used italics.
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- You know, this job would be a lot easier using PERL. | Steven King
- | Motorola Cellular
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