Subj : Re: 1984.ws
To : Digital Man
From : tenser
Date : Sun Jun 04 2023 06:41 am
On 02 Jun 2023 at 12:16p, Digital Man pondered and said...
DM> > One could also just do what the Kitty guy said
DM> > (admittedly in a jerky way...) and not try to
DM> > overload bold attributes for bright colors.
DM> >
DM> > He was obnoxious about it, but he's not wrong
DM> > about the technical merits.
DM>
DM> History says he's wrong. But it's the hill he's chosen to die on. <shrug>
Yeah it seems like a dumb thing to get all bent over,
particularly when someone already sent him a patch.
DM> > fu> i think it's a reasonable assertion. if the sysop has no tradition
DM> > fu> ansi on the whole board, then thumbs up i guess.
DM> >
DM> > Right so...it depends on the BBS system? :-)
DM>
DM> "will not work" is probably too binary an assertion in this case.
DM> Different terminals display stuff (colors, fonts, glyphs) differently,
DM> but the main features of a BBS should continue to work just fine.
Indeed.
Hmm. Now I'm mildly curious what ncurses does for its
color presets.
