Benny Pedersen wrote to Alan Ianson:

BP>  AI> Dang, I should have thought of this before. Try entering this at the
BP>  AI> console or adding it to .bash_profile. I'm not sure why/how it works,
BP>  AI> it just does.. :)
BP> 
BP>  AI> echo -en "\033(U"
BP> 
BP> does it enable ANSI ?

I am not sure what kind of command that is. It must be something that
bash understands. That command and the console font are important for
displaying BBS ansi and high ascii graphic characters as expected.

BP> what is the code for disable then ? :-)

I have forgotten what command is used to reverse that. Looking in my
.bashrc it looks like "\033[0" is the default on this box. Running
reset at the console will get you back to the default also.

I should really investigate why/how that works one day.. :)

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

... Ummm, Trouble with grammar have I, Yes! -Yoda-

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