ANSI escape codes

[bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)]

I'm running Linux (RH to be exact) and have noticed on the console that some
lines show up with ANSI escape codes in them - mostly the channel mode lines.

Upon looking into it, it uses $b, which upon looking into it, is defined as
c1('bold') which I have no idea what that means :)

In any case, I guess on other *nixes maybe this does the right thing, but am
curious as to why it doesn't in this case.  The other codes seem to work
('bold cyan' for instance).

Any ideas?


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