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Re: Formatting commands

marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu May 24 19:16:31 1990

>> What I mean by OOB is (credit to jik for this idea) that the text of the
>> message is sent as an ascii stream, and there is another field saying
>> ``start=5, end=23, function=bold.  start=42, end=64, function=center.''

So, in other words, you want zwrite, not zwgc, to do the parsing and
interpretation of formatting commands.  Further, you would be
requiring {discuss,pop,print} servers to do this same generation of OOB
formatting information.

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