[PLUG] a question which has stumped the finest minds

Sandy Herring sandy at herring.org
Fri Nov 7 17:23:02 UTC 2003


On Fri, 07 Nov 2003, Carla Schroder wrote: 
> How do I enable underlined words in the console? When I read 
> man pages in an xterm, certain words are underlined. But opening the 
> same man page in a console, the underlines are not there. (for 
> additional amusement, the underlined words are called "italic") 
> 
> I've read man terminfo and man ncurses and some others. Must be an 
> answer somewhere. Or is this one of those hilarious insider oldtyme 
> geek jokes?

Carla,

I don't profess to have "the finest mind", but I do Google pretty well :) 
I think you'll find the following discussions enlightening...

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&threadm=87u1kf9btp.fld%40barrow.com&rnum=13&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dunderline%2Blinux%2Bconsole%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26selm%3D87u1kf9btp.fld%2540barrow.com%26rnum%3D13

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&threadm=667ir2%243c%40news9.noc.netcom.net&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dunderline%2Blinux%2Bconsole%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26selm%3D667ir2%25243c%2540news9.noc.netcom.net%26rnum%3D2

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=underline+linux+console&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&selm=cola-liw-812479025-13056-1%40oravannahka.helsinki.fi&rnum=1

OT: Jeme's rude remark reminded me of a joke...

    An ill-mannered passenger cut his way past a long line at the ticket
    counter and demanded that the airline employee wait on him before the
    other passengers. The woman politely explained he would need to wait his
    turn like everyone else, and asked him to please return to the line. He
    blustered, "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!". The airline employee calmly picked
    up the PA mike and announced, "Ladies and gentlemen, we have a passenger
    who does not know who he is. If anyone can identify him, would you
    please step forward." The egotistical passenger blasphemed, "F at CK YOU!!"
    - to which the airline employee replied, "I'm sorry sir, you'll have to
    stand in line for that, too."

Sandy
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