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   Hello Alan!   
      
   ** On Tuesday 02.06.20 - 14:40, Alan Ianson wrote to August Abolins:   
      
    AA>> Maybe ansi color is just a North American thing?   
      
    AI> Some BBSs support ansi in messages quite well. They all take diffent   
    AI> approaches to adding color, ansi or pipe codes are the most used ways and   
    AI> there are others also.   
      
   Oh.. I forgot about pipe codes.  Then that would be too much to ask a     
   developer to accomodate all those methods.  I mean, it's not unlike Linus     
   Torvald's comment about 80char line limitations that I read somewhere:     
   "People with restrictive hardware shouldn't make it more inconvenient for     
   people who have better resources."   
      
      
    AI> If your interface doesn't support that it will look terrible. I   
    AI> normally use golded or a like editor to read and reply so I have no   
    AI> support for color in messages.   
      
   Yes.. it seems to be intended for reading right on a BBS using its     
   interface.  But I have less restrictive resources!  LOL   
      
      
     ../|ug   
      
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