Quoting jean-frederic clere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> I have some more problems because printf does not like \133. (Why
> \133 and not ]?).

Bacause [ and ] are the string delimiters in M4... If you change that and try 
to run AutoConf, it'll complain...


> I have some remarks:
> 
> - Why using "\033\13301m", "\033\13300m" etc but not
> bold="\033\13301m",
> offbold="\033\13300m", red=...?
> 
> - \133 is not ] but $ on my EBCDIC platform.
> 
> - Why not using bold=`tput smso` offbold=`tput rmso`? Does someone
> know how to ask for red and offred?

Why don't we simply remove all the colourization? It's kinda fancy and 
neat, but we don't seriously _need_ that...
I got that code from Ralf's some project, and looked cool on my terminal, 
but we seriously don't depend on having colours in the script :)

   Pier

BTW, for US citizens, s/colour/color/g (getting the accent and more over 
here)

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