NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/comp/sys/amiga/datacomm/7702

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From: [e-mail] (Steven King, Software Archaeologist)
Subject: Re: JRCOMM-blink
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[e-mail] (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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