Re: @ SCOS Message Format ?

On Sat, 22 Feb 2025 06:36:18 +0000, Richard Heathfield wrote:

Irrelevant, I'm afraid, David.
 

I don't believe so.

Any newsreader will have at its heart a terminal emulation function, where
the characteristics of the early electromechanical terminals are
accurately reproduced via software. Although convenient to forget that, it
remains true. The details of the implementation of the caret control set
will have depended on the details of the emulation chosen.

The newsreader software developers may, like us, may have forgotten about
this detail but it will remain embedded in any software that has been with
us for as long as USENET. For more recently developed readers, the
behaviour may be less well defined. In either case it would be unwise to
assume that sending a caret followed by a capital letter A to the reader
will result in those two characters being displayed. A perfectly correct
and compliant implementation will not. If the emulation says it should
treat it as a control sequence, that is what it will do.

Best wishes,
--
David Entwistle