Ansi escape sequences...

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Dan wrote"
|Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
|> I tried:
|>>  echo "\e[5;31mHello World"
|>  
|> and the red "Hello World" does not blink.
|
|try echo -e.
|
|No idea on blinking text, but your example above, combined 
|with echo -e 
|turned my terminal text red.

Yes, the color red worked - what you were supposed to
get is BLINKING red - that is where the problem is!

So it seems that ansi escape sequence for BLINKING is
broken.  Remember when we had broken symbolic links?
The BLINKED red.  This does not work.

Try creating a bogus symbolic link like this:

ln -s /foo/goo hoo
ls -l hoo

You will see a RED "hpp", but not BLINKING RED "hoo".

Me thinks there is a problem... ;)

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