From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] getting nroff to underline in v6,v5
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 11:51:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150927155118.GC21801@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADxT5N70c5pTHYgn2J7fN7FnrgXSeP=h=ep2g7X0bkwsoSKt1Q@mail.gmail.com>
Mark Longridge scripsit:
> Maybe there was the ability to use overstrike characters on the teletype?
That's inherent in the nature of printing terminals: 'X', BS, '_' worked
fine on all such terminals to produce an underlined X. Later it was
found to be better to use '_', BS, 'X', which looked the same on actual
TTYs or equivalents (LA34/36) and was greatly superior on video terminals.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
Any sufficiently-complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc,
informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
--Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming (rules 1-9 are unknown)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-27 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-27 8:33 Mark Longridge
2015-09-27 15:51 ` John Cowan [this message]
2015-09-27 16:10 ` Ronald Natalie
2015-09-27 23:55 ` scj
2015-09-27 18:00 ` Clem Cole
2015-09-27 18:12 ` Random832
2015-09-27 23:48 Doug McIlroy
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