breastle screen for HLA Adventure Need help designing one 978

Beth

Nope. If they work at all, that's only incidental and will depend highly on your newsreader software (and the environment in which you're running it.) A text-based newsreader running in a terminal emulator window (or on a real video terminal) could perhaps technically allow them to be used, but not any other environment.

Any decent text-based newsreader should filter out the CSI 1 codes, anyway, since you could (potentially) cause all kinds of mayhem and mischief by embedding, say, cursor positioning codes in your messages.

I recall seeing some netiquette guidelines from the early days where this was actually mentioned - and, subsequently, strongly discouraged. (Apparently there was some software that pbutted control codes through.)

There's another fairly good reason for avoiding them as well: not everyone is using a terminal with the same capabilities. And, of course, in modern GUI environments, not many are even using terminals any longer, emulated or not.

You have nailed it right on the head there.

Did I just read far too much into those quotation marks?

I wouldn't recommend that for Usenet articles, but you might want to give it a try on a color-enabled video terminal (or in a color-enabled terminal emulator window.)

It's quite simple really... you just output sequences like

decimal.

The first control sequence should enable yellow text (33) on a blue background (44) and the second one will revert everything back to the normal.

1 "Control Sequence Introducer", not "Crime Scene Investigation"!

-- znark