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Grex Test Item 83: Do You See What I See?
Entered by remmers on Tue Apr 12 03:02:20 UTC 1994:

One of my favorite books is Dickens' A^H_ T^H_a^H_l^H_e^H_ o^H_f^H_
T^H_w^H_o^H_ C^H_i^H_t^H_i^H_e^H_s^H_. It is a simply
f^Hfa^Has^Hsc^Hci^Hin^Hna^Hat^Hti^Hin^Hng^Hg description of the French
Revolution.

Don't you agree?

W^HWE^HEL^HLL^HL?^H?

Okay, perhaps K^H_i^H_s^H_s^H_ M^H_e^H_ D^H_e^H_a^H_d^H_l^H_y^H_ is more your
speed!

7 responses total.

#1 of 7 by remmers on Tue Apr 12 03:06:52 1994:

On the other hand, some people don't think _^HT_^Ha_^Hl_^He is all that hot.

#2 of 7 by popcorn on Wed Apr 13 01:31:30 1994:

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#3 of 7 by popcorn on Wed Apr 13 01:32:38 1994:

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#4 of 7 by remmers on Wed Apr 13 02:22:06 1994:

Yep.  The "more" and "less" pagers interpret the three-character
sequence _^HX (where X is any printable character) as a command
to display X underscored.  They interpret X^HX as a command to
display X in boldface.

If you're not using a pager, the ^H just backspaces the cursor
and you see X without any special attributes.

#5 of 7 by davel on Wed Apr 13 18:33:51 1994:

comes out cyan-on-blue to me

#6 of 7 by albionpb on Mon Sep 11 05:22:13 2000:

whta the heck is a pager ? i am new , sorry ...

#7 of 7 by remmers on Thu Sep 14 16:51:47 2000:

A pager displays output page by page, or in this case
screen by screen, by causing the output to pause after
each screenful.

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