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|    August Abolins to Martin Foster    |
|    OpenXP Questions /ansi color    |
|    06 Jun 20 13:12:00    |
      MSGID: 2:221/1.58@fidonet e52b9b30       REPLY: 2:310/31.3@fidonet e528a6dc       PID: OpenXP/5.0.44 (Win32)       CHRS: ASCII 1       TZUTC: -0400       Hello Martin!              ** On Saturday 06.06.20 - 09:43, Martin Foster wrote to August Abolins:               >>> Here's his reply to your first question .....        >>> ---------- 8< ----------        >>> "No, sorry.        >>> Personally, I have never heard of messages with ansi color."        >>> ---------- 8< ----------               AA>> Maybe ansi color is just a North American thing?               MF> No, it was a BBS thing, used here in the UK and no doubt used all over        MF> the world. Oh, happy days =8)              :( I guess Crosspoint/OpenXP was focused on pure text comms then, and        avoided incorporating BBS-specific eye-candy.              Given how OXP's ">" quoting colour system works, any ansi-color codes        thrown in would probably mess all that up anyway.              It would be cool to have a Thunderbird plugin that could render ansi        colour codes and pipe codes in select message groups though.                      ../|ug              --- OpenXP 5.0.44        * Origin: ----------Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate.---------- (2:221/1.58)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 90/1 120/340 601 123/131 226/30 227/114 702 229/101       SEEN-BY: 229/424 426 664 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400 292/854 317/3       SEEN-BY: 322/757 342/200       PATH: 221/1 280/464 229/101 426           |
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