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Re: question about VT100 and procmail

1996-06-28 09:01:23

    Gumbie (<gumbie(_at_)sunspot(_dot_)tiac(_dot_)net>) recently wrote (in 
part):

  My problem is how to i do a match for ESC sequeces in the Subject:, 
and body of email, Mainly the VT100 screen test sequence (it's the most 
anoying)

    Sorry I can't tell you *how* to filter out this junk, but *what* you
    want to filter out is just the ESCAPE character (DEC 27, HEX 1B) which 
    will render the remaining characters (]something) into just a little
    snippet of plain text garbage.  It'll look like a little bit of line
    noise.

    This would probably be easier than trying to match all possible 
    escape sequence patterns.  Digital also uses an eight-bit escape 
    sequence for VT200 and later terminals, but that should automatically 
    get quoted going through most mailers, and thus render impotent.

                                                        Later.....BC

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