Hey mark!

If this breaks anything I am blaming you.

They call me mellow yellow.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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Hallo Maurice!

Heh, heh. Gotta love bashing. How about when I quote it?

They call me mellow yellow.

Het leven is goed,
Maurice

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Hey Maurice!

Heh, heh. Gotta love bashing. How about when I quote it?

They call me mellow yellow.

Worked like a charm here but just to be sure let's double down on it although we are probably pushing our so-called luck. Right mark?

Life is good,
Maurice

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They call me mellow [33;1myellow[0m.

In BBBS it looks like that, no colour at all.

Looking at that message in Mystic the word "yellow" is yellow.

Mystic has no problem displaying ansi messages as you would expect.

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Hey Alan!

In BBBS it looks like that, no colour at all.

Right. Same with vim and I suspect most if not all text editors.

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

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On 2019 Apr 15 04:01:02, you wrote to me:

@MSGID: 1:153/7001 5cb401ff
Hey mark!

If this breaks anything I am blaming you.

They call me mellow yellow.

i'm assuming that the above quote really does have ">[" in it... GoldED doesn't do ANSI and replaces the esc character with the ">" but if i save the message to a temp file and then view it, i can see the ANSI :) if i were using a terminal into a BBS, i would have seen it immediately instead of having to do the temp file thing...

@PATH: 153/7001 757 770/1 280/464 154/10 3634/12

)\/(ark

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Hey mark!

i'm assuming that the above quote really does have ">[" in it

No it doesn't. In reality the ansi escape sequences both start with the C0 control character 0x1B. In vim it shows up as a blue coloured ^[ character combination.

temp file and then view it, i can see the ANSI :)

Same situation here. I wrote a bash script I call msg-read.sh that uses gawk to print the 5 fields from raw msg's which preserves as well as honours the ascii escape sequences and the end result is more or less what you would see on

a BBS. I don't bother with line and/or box drawing characters and use = to divide the msg_body from the 'header'; Date, To, From, and Subj, as well as add

those labels to the appropriate field. Also I pipe that to 'fold -s -w n' to add soft word wrapping when needed. I could add 'n=$(tput cols)' to the script

so it would automagically know the width and then 'fold -s -w n' to add the soft wraps in exactly the right position (the nearest space to the end of that terminal line). That way different terminals with different dimmensions would wrap according to their needs using the exact same script -> 604 bytes as it stands today.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Quoting Maurice Kinal to mark lewis on 15-Apr-2019 04:01 <=-

If this breaks anything I am blaming you.

They call me mellow yellow.

It didn't break anything.... And, in my reader, using the Alt-V, I saw
the yellow in full color... :)

ttyl neb

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Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 19-Apr-2019 03:57 <=-

It didn't break anything.... And, in my reader, using the Alt-V,
I saw the yellow in full color... :)

It works here on the 'linux' terminal but in the editor it only shows
the ansi escape sequence for yellow, as well as the reset ansi escape sequence as the end of yellow, just before the period.

Yes, that's what I saw in my reader, in all the permutations.... but
Bluewave does have that magic spell to let one actually see the ansi as intended... It just doesn't do a page break, so if there's a multipage
ansi picture, it scrolls as it shows it....

It would have been nice to see the pot of gold at the end of the
rainbow and perhaps mark might resend it without his golded getting in
the way. I did see the ascii version of it here; https://www.asciiart.eu/holiday-and-events/saint-patricks-day
Given that all the characters are real ascii then no conversion should
be required.

Were they colored....?

ttyl neb

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Hey Nancy!

Were they colored....?

No. They are all ascii art without colourization; neither ansi nor html which would make more sense on a website.

Life is good,
Maurice

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Re: Re: a simple ansi test
By: Nancy Backus to Maurice Kinal on Mon Apr 22 2019 01:06 am

Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 19-Apr-2019 03:57 <=-

It didn't break anything.... And, in my reader, using the Alt-V,
I saw the yellow in full color... :)

It works here on the 'linux' terminal but in the editor it only shows the ansi escape sequence for yellow, as well as the reset ansi escape sequence as the end of yellow, just before the period.

Yes, that's what I saw in my reader, in all the permutations.... but Bluewave does have that magic spell to let one actually see the ansi as intended... It just doesn't do a page break, so if there's a multipage
ansi picture, it scrolls as it shows it....

It would have been nice to see the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and perhaps mark might resend it without his golded getting in the way. I did see the ascii version of it here; https://www.asciiart.eu/holiday-and-events/saint-patricks-day
Given that all the characters are real ascii then no conversion should be required.

Were they colored....?

ttyl neb

... A city is a large community where people are lonesome together

I saw colors
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Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 22-Apr-2019 19:20 <=-

Were they colored....?

No. They are all ascii art without colourization; neither ansi nor
html which would make more sense on a website.

Ah, ok.... just curious... :)

ttyl neb

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Quoting Carol Shenkenberger to Nancy Backus on 22-Apr-2019 17:07 <=-

It would have been nice to see the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and perhaps mark might resend it without his golded getting in the way. I did see the ascii version of it here; https://www.asciiart.eu/holiday-and-events/saint-patricks-day
Given that all the characters are real ascii then no conversion should be required.

Were they colored....?

I saw colors

I saw colors in mark's messages (using BW's Alt-V spell to view ANSI)
when he originally sent them.... the rainbow just wasn't properly
aligned to view the graphic as intended at that point...

I was asking about the ascii version that Maurice viewed on the page....
where apparently there weren't any colors, just the ascii characters..

ttyl neb

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