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|    Maurice Kinal to Alan Ianson    |
|    a simple ansi test    |
|    15 Apr 19 04:46:04    |
      MSGID: 1:153/7001 5cb40c8c       REPLY: 1:153/757.0 9e55c0a5       Hey Alan!               AI> In BBBS it looks like that, no colour at all.              Right. Same with vim and I suspect most if not all text editors.               AI> Looking at that message in Mystic the word "yellow" is yellow.              Same with 'cat' which can and does work with ansi escape sequences. For       longer ansified files 'less -r' is probably the better tool, especially when       piped to from 'fold -s -w n' where n = number of columns in the display.              It is all good.              Life is good,       Maurice              ... Don't cry for me I have vi.       --- GNU bash, version 5.0.3(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)        * Origin: Little Mikey's Brain - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001)       SEEN-BY: 15/2 18/200 57/0 123/1970 153/757 154/10 203/0 221/0 226/17       SEEN-BY: 229/107 354 426 452 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 267/800       SEEN-BY: 280/464 5003 310/31 317/2 3 322/757 342/200 393/68 396/45       SEEN-BY: 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/0 1 10 100 330 340 772/0 1 210       SEEN-BY: 772/500       PATH: 153/7001 757 770/1 280/464 229/426           |
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