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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 8 Jun 2001.
Re: archive

Re: archive

On Fri, 08 Jun 2001 04:53:08 GMT, Faux_Pseudo@24.177.56.253 (Faux_Pseudo)
enlightened us with:

> --(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)--
> 		--(Eli the Bearded said it like only they can.)--
> > In alt.ascii-art, R L Samuell <see_URL_in.sig@end.to_mail_to.us> wrote:
> > > gopher://samuell.com/
> > 
> > Wow, don't see gopher links much these days. I don't think IE can
> > even handle them. (Netscape chugs along fine.)
> > 
> > And I like the animations archive -- I haven't found a decent source
> > for those (that works) in a lot of Google-ing. Lots of broken links
> > from old FAQs is the best I could do.
> > 
> > Here's a viewer for them, since 'cat' is way too fast on my system:
> > 
> > perl -MTime::HiRes=sleep -wpe 'sleep 0.02' FILE
> > 
> > Adjust sleep speed to taste (but the hi-res sleep is really important,
> > fetch the module for perl from www.cpan.org if you don't have it).
> > 
> > Elijah
> > ------
> > delighted
> 
> lynx dose gopher just fine.  After all who needs a GUI browser anyway
> dose any one know of a way to do the above perl script without going
> and downloading the Time::HiRes mod?

From what I can remember, there's a built in call that can do pauses of less
than a function - it's mentioned under sleep in my documentation. From what I
can remember it's some kind of file open call.

Stuart
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Subject: Re: archive
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