[MUD-Dev] Re: Ansii color, needing some specs and or pointer

[Jon A. Lambert]

On 28 Jul 98, J C Lawrence wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jul 1998 21:18:19 -0700 (MST) 
> Ben Greear<greear at cyberhighway.net> wrote:
> 
> > The players keep yelping at me to provide some ansi color, but I'm
> > clueless on the art, so I thought I'd see if any of you had any
> > pointers?  Surely I'm not the only one to be faced with this
> > scourge!
> 
> A partial VT220 table (now if only I could find my original DEC VT220
> manuals):
> 

I recall that under ANSI (perhaps this was more DOS specific) there 
was a way to stuff "format C:\rY\r" into the keyboard buffer.  It had 
interesting repercussions in typing ansi messages at a DOS shell or 
reading ANSI mail under certain mailers that had shell support.  

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