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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Feb 1996.
Re: Color in Pine e-mail?

Re: Color in Pine e-mail?

In article <Pin...@haywire.DIALix.COM>,
   Rosemary Lyndall Wemm <lyn...@haywire.DIALix.COM> wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Feb 1996, Rush Le wrote:
>
>> does anyone know how to do color in the compose section of pine e-mail?
>
>It's not wise unless you can be sure that the recipient has the same kind 
>of terminal emulation which you are using.  Otherwise it probably won't 
>do what you expect.  Since you are sending control codes which will be 
>translated differently on different terminals you could do some damage to 
>your recipient's system.   DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
OK what if I am SURE that their terminal emulation is the same ?
Can you tell me ?

Please ?

Aidz.
aid...@nwu.edu

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From: ayh...@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Adrian Y Hsiah)
Subject: Re: Color in Pine e-mail?
Date: 1996/02/16
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references: <Pin...@harvey.isg.siue.edu> <Pin...@haywire.DIALix.COM>
organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.   USA
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