On 2019 Apr 13 22:15:28, you wrote to me:

 ml>> there were also ^A codes as well as ANSI codes...

 MK> Those survived and I wasn't sure they were in your original as such.  I
 MK> didn't count them but there are quite a few of them as well as \r's from
 MK> hell.

yeah, GoldED trashed it at some point... it didn't remain at the end of the
message where i put it... when i read your first post about it, i went back and
 looked and GE has broken it all to hell...

 ml>> i see ANSI graphics posted in one or two of the BBS ads echos
 ml>> all the time...

 MK> Hm.  Maybe I should pick one of those up.  Any recommendations?

not recommendations, per sé...

  BBS_ADS
  BBS_PROMOTION

 ml>> i'll have to try to dig one out...

 MK> I'd prefer the St. Patrick's one if available.  I now need closure since
 MK> you brought it up.

would a graphic work instead of the farkled ANSI?

 ml>> that should not be needed with what i do...

 MK> Sounds great.  The little I've done with ansi graphics I've made it a
point
 MK> to follow a similar plan.  In my case it was only to colourize messages on
 MK> a console.

yeah, that's what a lot of folks used to do... in some of the networks that are
 mainly ANSI graphic oriented, there's a lot of that and you almost have to
read posts online via an ANSI capable terminal...

 ml>> i don't know at this point...

 MK> Understood.  Anyhow back when it mattered to me I found rxvt to be the
 MK> terminal of choice in GUI-land.  If I am recalling correctly it was with
 MK> the -rv and -ls switches turned on by default.  Same with xterm now that I
 MK> think about it.

i think the term i use is konsole... it comes with KDE and i've just never
looked into trying any others... i don't know what the regular text-based
console is when i switch over to it via CTRL-ALT-F1 but it is the standard TTY
interface... i have six of those there via ALT-F1-6 and ALT-F7 brings me back
into the GUI...

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