Some senseless babbling from Luns Tee to Mike Ruskai
on 09-26-94  19:05 about VIO on PM...

 MR> A VIO window in the PM has lousy ANSI.  So, is 
 MR> there something that will 
 MR> provide a correct pallette and support blinking 
 MR> characters for a PM comm 
 LT> 
 LT> That's why nobody uses it. :) It's not that difficult to implement
 LT> a rudimentary ANSI state machine - I've written one in about 300 lines,
 LT> and I can recall hearing of others who'd done similar things. VIO
 LT> itself is okay (or rather, AVIO) though it's probably best to avoid in
 LT> new code: it exists primarily for migration purposes. You probably
 LT> won't be seeing blinking any time soon, though it wouldn't be that
 LT> difficult to implement either:  it essentially requires redrawing as
 LT> much as the whole screen with each blink, which is pretty costly.

Markus Schmidt, who is the author of ZOC, a PM terminal program, uses VIO 
(or so I assume since he didn't deny it, and it certainly looks like it).  
Are you saying your 300 lines or so will get a good pallette with ANSI in a 
PM window?  

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