On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Matt Wilson wrote:

> In order to display more characters on the console, the 'intense'
> a.k.a. bold bit has to be used for characters.  Perhaps once we get a
> better unicode-on-VC option (beyond normal text modes, which limit us
> to 255 glyphs) we can bring bold back.
> 
> That sounds like a rally cheer, "Bring bold back!  Bring bold back!".
> I can see the crowds now, waving signs, performing acts of civil
> disobedience, and so on...

Yes, "Bring bold back!" :-) In our rush to whatever we're rushing to, we 
should not forget that a lot of "us", are running a lot of servers, that do 
not have X installed. We yell "who cares" to bluecurver or whatever it's 
called. Real men use the command line, and we like it pretty! ;-)


Cheers!
-- 
Richard Potter RHCE
Re/Max
Kingston, ON  CANADA 




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