On 2019 Apr 19 22:46:46, you wrote to me:

 MK> All three look more or less what I see in vim.  If that is your only
method
 MK> of displaying ansi msg's then all hope is lost for msg'ing ansi ... not
 MK> that it really matters ... does it?  If so then you'll have to reevaluate
 MK> how you're going to handle it.

i was mainly showing how they arrived here and are displayed in GoldED... you
can see that the esc character has been replaced with '>' in the display but it
 is there in reality... the main thing being how the lines are laid out...

i've still not tried saving them and then looking... ISTR doing it in the past
but don't recall what i used to view them... it may have been cat but :shrug:
if i were taking extra steps to get the messages another way, things could be
different... i don't recall if GoldED has a way to save and display a file
externally... TimED did but i'm not using it any more since i lost my OS/2 box
and have moved to a full linux barn... no more OS/2 or winwhatever any more...

anyway, i may still try the export and view that way but for now, i'm ok...

)\/(ark

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