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Re: [Groff] SGR escape sequences as tty default: A faux pas.
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] SGR escape sequences as tty default: A faux pas. |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Mar 2002 17:30:12 +0100 (CET) |
> Well... This seems like a useless rant but I didn't have the chance
> to exercise groff current tty output capabilities with the new SGR
> escape sequences before. I have done it under cygwin using the plain
> old win32 console. And what I found I didn't like.
>
> The release version (1.17.2) works find with the tty because it uses
> old no-nonsense escape codes. But groff-current *DOES NOT*. Why?
> Because it has defaulted to use SGR sequences in tty output. And *it
> doesn't work* under Cygwin.
Strange. Good-old MS-DOS came with ANSI.SYS which enabled color
support on the console with SGR escapes. Is it possible that the
win32 console doesn't support this? This would imply that MS-DOS is
better than win32...
Werner