[Info-vax] DCPS and gray-bar output

[Rob Brown]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 at 14:35 -0500, Paul Anderson wrote:

> In article 
> <alpine.LFD.2.00.0901291127590.16661 at libra.gmcl.internal>, Rob Brown 
> <mylastname at gmcl.com> wrote:
>
>> I like the gray-bar output I get when I specify DATA_TYPE=LIST and 
>> sometimes would like it with DATA_TYPE=ANSI.
>>
>> Do I already have a gray-bar module that I can use with 
>> DATA_TYPE=ANSI?
>
> No.  DATA_TYPE=ANSI and DATA_TYPE=LIST are mutually exclusive.
>
> Since ANSI escape sequences can change the size and spacing of 
> characters, results could be pretty weird if you could use both ANSI 
> translation and the gray-bar output of the LIST datatype.

Thanks for the information, Paul.  Makes sense.

Perhaps I did not ask the question right.  Suppose MUMBLE.TXT is a 
plain ASCII text file with no escape sequences, and suppose that "TXT" 
is *not* in DCPS$FILE_EXTENSION_DATA_TYPE.DAT. If I print MUMBLE.TXT 
without specifying a data type, is MUMBLE.TXT printed as ANSI?  Or as 
some other data type?

Thanks.

- Rob


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