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 Turn on ANSI by using the Terminal settings (
3T
0) subcommand of the
.Enter Configuration (
3.EC
0) command.  There are at least two different
ANSI modes available from the Terminal Type (
3T
0) choice of the Terminal
settings subcommand.  Selecting ANSI Mono tells Citadel to display certain
things with ANSI (such as making room prompts inverse and message headers
bold). It also tells Citadel to pass the ^A codes (see below) 0 to 4 to you.  
Selecting ANSI Color tells Citadel to pass the ^A codes a-h and A-H to you.
 
 Turning on either also tells Citadel to pass true ANSI (ESC[...) codes to
you. Otherwise, it strips these out, in an attempt to keep the text visible
to you. (It works well as long as the only true ANSI codes are color changes,
not cursor movement.)
 
 The ^A codes start with a CTRL-A and then a character. (For ANSI color
changing, use numbers 0-4 and letters A-H and a-h. Other codes are used,
but are part of Citadel's Message Command Interpreter (MCI).)
 
 These will give you different special effects for your text, as follows:
 
 What it does:                              What it looks like:
 
 0 -- NORMAL                                
0Normal
0
 1 -- BLINK                                 
1Blinking
0
 2 -- REVERSE (inverse)                     
2Inverted
0
 3 -- BOLD                                  
3Boldface
0
 4 -- UNDERLINE                             
4Underline
0
 
 You can change the actual color codes that Citadel passes to your terminal
when it comes across these ^A codes by using the Attributes (
3R
0) choice
of the Terminal settings (
3T
0) subcommand of the .Enter Configuration
(
3.EC
0) command.
 
 Citadel also supports explicit color changes using the uppercase letters 
A-H for background and lowercase letters a-h for foreground color. The
following table shows how the colors appear for specified foreground and
background color codes:
 
 Citadel codes for colors:
 
 BLACK FOREGROUND               ^Aa      BLACK BACKGROUND       ^AA
 RED FOREGROUND                 ^Ab      RED BACKGROUND         ^AB
 GREEN FOREGROUND               ^Ac      GREEN BACKGROUND       ^AC
 YELLOW FOREGROUND              ^Ad      YELLOW BACKGROUND      ^AD
 BLUE FOREGROUND                ^Ae      BLUE BACKGROUND        ^AE
 MAGENTA FOREGROUND             ^Af      MAGENTA BACKGROUND     ^AF
 CYAN FOREGROUND                ^Ag      CYAN BACKGROUND        ^AG
 WHITE FOREGROUND               ^Ah      WHITE BACKGROUND       ^AH
 RANDOM FOREGROUND              ^Ar      RANDOM BACKGROUND      ^AR
 
            
4Normal Colors         
3Bold Colors
0
 
    Forground  abcdefgh            abcdefgh
 Background A 
A
a a
bb
cc
dd
ee
ff
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0        A 
3
A
a a
bb
cc
dd
ee
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0
            B 
B
a a
bb
cc
dd
ee
ff
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0        B 
3
B
a a
bb
cc
dd
ee
ff
gg
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0
            C 
C
a a
bb
cc
dd
ee
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0        C 
3
C
a a
bb
cc
dd
ee
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0
            D 
D
a a
bb
cc
dd
ee
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0        D 
3
D
a a
bb
cc
dd
ee
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0
            E 
E
a a
bb
cc
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ee
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0        E 
3
E
a a
bb
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0
            F 
F
a a
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0        F 
3
F
a a
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0
            G 
G
a a
bb
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0        G 
3
G
a a
bb
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0
            H 
H
a a
bb
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0        H 
3
H
a a
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 Note that you can use Bold (
3^A3
0) before a foreground color setting to
make the character brighter, and Blink (
3^A1
0) before a background color
setting to make the character blink.
 
 Here's another chart for your convenience:
  
 
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g   BACKGROUND     APPEARANCE 
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g   and   
0º  Normal          
0"ctrlA 0"
0         º  A -- BLACK     
A "ctrlA A" 
0 º
 
3
bLowercase
0º  Blinking        
1"ctrlA 1"
0         º  B -- RED       
B
a "ctrlA B" 
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g are NOT 
0º  Reverse         
2"ctrlA 2"
0         º  C -- GREEN     
C
a "ctrlA C" 
0 º
 
gthe same 
0º  Bold            
3"ctrlA 3"
0         º  D -- ORANGE    
D
a "ctrlA D" 
0 º
 
gthey have
0º  Underline       
4"ctrlA 4"
0         º  E -- BLUE      
E
a "ctrlA E" 
0 º
 
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0º  Reverse/Blink   
2
1"ctrlA 2 ctrlA 1"
0 º  F -- PURPLE    
F
a "ctrlA F" 
0 º
 
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0º  Bold/Blink      
3
1"ctrlA 3 ctrlA 1"
0 º  G -- CYAN      
G
a "ctrlA G" 
0 º
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4
1"ctrlA 4 ctrlA 1"
0 º  H -- WHITE     
H
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gNORMAL COLOR LETTER        HI-LITE COLOR LETTER           
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a Black   -- "ctrlA a"       HI-Black  -- 
3
H
a "ctrlA 3 ctrlA a"
0º
             º 
bRed     -- "ctrlA b"       HI-Red    -- 
3
b "ctrlA 3 ctflA b"
0º
             º 
cGreen   -- "ctrlA c"       HI-Green  -- 
3
c "ctrlA 3 ctrlA c"
0º
             º 
dOrange  -- "ctrlA d"       HI-Yellow -- 
3
d "ctrlA 3 ctrlA d"
0º
             º 
eBlue    -- "ctrlA e"       HI-Blue   -- 
3
e "ctrlA 3 ctrlA e"
0º
             º 
fPurple  -- "ctrlA f"       HI-Purple -- 
3
f "ctrlA 3 ctrlA f"
0º
             º 
gCyan    -- "ctrlA g"       HI-Cyan   -- 
3
g "ctrlA 3 ctrlA g"
0º
             º 
hWhite   -- "ctrlA h"       HI-White  -- 
3
h "ctrlA 3 ctrlA h"
0º
             º 
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3
r "ctrlA 3 ctrlA r"
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